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 Translation for 'saber rattling' from English to Icelandic
SYNO saber rattling | sabre rattling
vopnabrak {hv}saber-rattling [Am.]
vopnaglamur {hv}saber-rattling [Am.]
vagnaskrölt {hv}wagon rattling
vopnabrak {hv}sabre-rattling [Br.]
vopnaglamur {hv}sabre-rattling [Br.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Upon receiving personal criticism, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated the following: "This is not saber-rattling.
  • This includes a good amount of saber rattling between the Schutzbund and the conservative Heimwehr, as encouraged by the SDAPÖ newspaper, the Arbeiter Zeitung.
  • In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a technology race between Britain and France made the British Empire more leery of French intentions than German saber-rattling.
  • During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, both the US and the USSR detonated several high-altitude nuclear explosions as a form of saber rattling.
  • That Valparaiso riot prompted saber rattling from enraged US officials.

  • The Russian newspaper "Pravda" described the exercise as "saber rattling".
  • He described demands for economic sanctions and increased troop presence as "saber rattling" and "dangerous posturing."
  • Isolationists branded the program as provocative saber-rattling that threatened the nation's neutrality; others slammed it as a pork barrel waste of tax dollars, while supporters touted the positive impacts on the aviation industry and the defense value of a vastly enlarged base of trained pilots.
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