His bark is worse than his bite. 「口は悪いが、そんなに悪い人ではない」 [名言・ことわざ]
bite にからむ表現を続ける。One's bark is worse than one's bite. 「噛むよりも吠える方がひどい」とは何のことかと思うが、「吠えるほどには噛まない」、そこで「口ほどには悪くない人」「口は悪いが、実際にそこまでひどいことはしない」という意味になる。
- If someone's bark is worse than their bite, they are not as unpleasant as they seem, and will not carry out all of their threats:
Don't let her frighten you - her bark is worse than her bite.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus)
- Prov. Someone makes a lot of harsh-sounding threats but never carries them out.
Don't get upset at anything my father says. His bark is worse than his bite.
Jill: Lisa says she's going to sue me for letting my dog dig up her rosebushes. John: Don't pay any attention. Her bark is worse than her bite.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
- (idiomatic) The individual acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless.
Related terms
・barking dogs seldom bite
・all bark and no bite
(Wiktionary)
他のある辞書には、mid-1600sと書かれていて、かなり前から使われていたことがわかる。
人間の友である犬に関係するとみられるためか、ウェブで検索すると、この表現を犬と組み合わせたマンガや写真が結構ヒットした。
- If someone's bark is worse than their bite, they are not as unpleasant as they seem, and will not carry out all of their threats:
Don't let her frighten you - her bark is worse than her bite.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus)
- Prov. Someone makes a lot of harsh-sounding threats but never carries them out.
Don't get upset at anything my father says. His bark is worse than his bite.
Jill: Lisa says she's going to sue me for letting my dog dig up her rosebushes. John: Don't pay any attention. Her bark is worse than her bite.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
- (idiomatic) The individual acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless.
Related terms
・barking dogs seldom bite
・all bark and no bite
(Wiktionary)
他のある辞書には、mid-1600sと書かれていて、かなり前から使われていたことがわかる。
人間の友である犬に関係するとみられるためか、ウェブで検索すると、この表現を犬と組み合わせたマンガや写真が結構ヒットした。
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