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:
- out of one's hair
- out of one's element
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- for one thing
- on the edge of one's seat
- one in a million
- thousand and one
- on one's own time
- hole in one
- one foot in the grave
- off one's chest
- million and one
- number one
- off one's rocker
- One person's trash is another person's treasure.