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rattle one's sabre

verb

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of sabre-rattle.

    • Policies like these, which come close to being plunder, would seem to violate international law, but Washington's response to that is simply to rattle its sabre.
    • It began to emerge from its hiatus in October of 1935 as planning for a new ministry began as Germany began to rattle its sabre once more.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rattle, sabre.

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