one's bark is worse than one's bite
чьи-либо слова страшнее, чем его дела
Ma Brooks is always scolding her children, but they know her bark is worse than her bite, and they are not afraid of her.
Другие идиомы:
- on one's person
- hundred and one
- one jump/step ahead of (someone or something)
- one's number is up
- one at a time
- take care of number one
- in one fell swoop
- over one's head
- do (someone) one better
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- on one's shoulders
- one good turn deserves another
- one to a customer
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- one's stamping grounds