"rattle one's sabre" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "rattles one's sabre",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "rattling one's sabre",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "rattled one's sabre",
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    },
    {
      "form": "rattled one's sabre",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sabre-rattle"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Theodore Roszak, World, Beware!: American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror, page 96:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe:",
          "text": "While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Erwin Warkentin, The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume I:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of sabre-rattle"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rattle, sabre."
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rattle one's sabre"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rattles one's sabre",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rattling one's sabre",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rattled one's sabre",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rattled one's sabre",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "sabre-rattle"
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Theodore Roszak, World, Beware!: American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror, page 96:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe:",
          "text": "While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Erwin Warkentin, The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume I:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of sabre-rattle"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rattle, sabre."
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  "word": "rattle one's sabre"
}