rattle one's saber

[rattle one's saber] {v. phr.}

To threaten another government or country without subsequent acts of war.

* /It is considered an act of demagoguery on the part of politicians to rattle their sabers./

Compare: YELLOW JOURNALISM.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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