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someone's bark is worse than his/her bite
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If someone's bark is worse than their bite, they are not as unpleasant or frightening as they seem: 刀子嘴豆腐心;言语比行动吓人
Don't let her frighten you - her bark is worse than her bite.别被她吓倒了，她这人是刀子嘴豆腐心。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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baneful
banefully
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brinkmanship
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hazard
hazardous
hazardously
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on/under pain of deathidiom
or elseidiom
parlous
parlously
peril
tombstoning
treacherously
triple threat
ultra-hazardous
venturesome
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