Concept cluster: Activities > Sabre-rattling
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, sword., to place or hold two swords so they cross each other.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muffin, top; the top of a muffin, sometimes removed to be eaten separately.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see police, beat.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quarrel, with, to argue with (someone).
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattle [To threaten a big battle or war.]
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, nose, in.
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(American spelling) Alternative form of sabre [(UK, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.]
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Alternative spelling of sabre-rattling [(idiomatic) A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.]
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chiefly US spelling of sabre-rattling [(idiomatic) A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.]
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Alternative form of sabrage [The opening of a bottle, normally of champagne, by slicing off the bottle's neck with a sabre/saber sword.]
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Alternative form of sabre-rattling [(idiomatic) A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.]
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(idiomatic) A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, through.

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