Threatening but ineffectual person or thing (5,5) |
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Pager providing storage for brash one's ineffectual entity (5,5) |
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Chinese-based idiom, for an "authority" without power |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
01 Sep 2024 |
Empty threat [1st] |
Newsday |
16 Jun 2024 |
1975 British film starring David Niven as 'Major' Walter Bradbury |
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Person or thing that only appears powerful (5,5) |
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Party boss whose bark is worse than his bite |
Wall Street Journal |
16 May 2023 |
All-bark, no-bite type |
Newsday |
02 Jan 2023 |
The Cowardly Lion, e.g., oddly |
Universal |
31 Dec 2022 |
Toothless adversary (or something that can be made in 39-Down) |
USA Today |
19 Sep 2022 |
Daily row about golf organisation giving impression of power |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Jun 2022 |
Seemingly strong opponent |
Newsday |
20 Oct 2020 |
First anniversary gift for a zookeeper? |
LA Times Daily |
12 Mar 2020 |
First anniversary gift for a zookeeper? |
The Washington Post |
12 Mar 2020 |
*Feline metaphor for an empty threat |
The Washington Post |
30 Sep 2019 |
*Feline metaphor for an empty threat |
LA Times Daily |
30 Sep 2019 |
Toothless threat |
USA Today |
04 Jun 2019 |
Toothless threat |
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*Feline metaphor for an empty threat |
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Cheeky one taken in by caller -- a person who's not a real threat |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Mar 2018 |
Empty threat |
Newsday |
11 Feb 2018 |
Threatening but ineffectual sort |
USA Today |
16 Jan 2017 |
Threatening but ineffectual sort |
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Provides no real threat to most of 26 across with big cat |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Sep 2016 |
All-bark, no-bite type |
LA Times Daily |
29 Nov 2015 |
All-bark, no-bite type |
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Empty threat |
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Nothing to be afraid of, really |
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Something that shouldn't scare you |
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Bluff-and-bluster type |
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Toothless threat |
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Empty threat |
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All-bark, no-bite type |
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Person feigning power |
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*One who's an empty threat |
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No real threat |
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Phantom menace |
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Empty threat |
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Its bark is worse than its bite? |
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One pretending to be powerful |
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All-bark, no-bite type |
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Seemingly strong opponent |
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Toothless enemy |
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One pretending to be powerful |
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Pseudo-powerful one |
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Outwardly powerful but inwardly weak person |
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It's not as threatening as it looks |
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Person who appears powerful but isn't |
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*Its bark is worse than its bite |
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*Its bark is worse than its bite |
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It has little bite |
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Its roar is worse than its bite |
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Empty threat |
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Empty threat |
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Bluff-and-bluster type |
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One feigning courage |
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1975 David Niven film |
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1975 David Niven film |
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Blowhard (1st) |
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Blowhard (1st) |
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Cowardly Lion, for one |
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Bully with a glass jaw, for example |
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No big threat in Detroit? |
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Its roar is worse than its bite |
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It's not as threatening as it looks |
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One who looks powerful but isn't |
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Empty threat |
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Toothless threat |
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One outwardly powerful, inwardly weak |
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Phony strong man |
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He's outwardly tough, inwardly weak |
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Fearsome weakling |
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Formidable weakling |
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Powerful-looking weakling |
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Ferocious fake. |
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China's epithet for U. S. might. |
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One whose strength is illusory. |
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Empty threat, in oriental parlance. |
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