sabre-rattling
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
A threatening display of military strength or aggressive rhetoric intended to intimidate rather than to fight.
Analysts dismissed the troop build-up as sabre-rattling designed to extract concessions at the summit.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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