bark

See:
  • (one's) bark is worse than (one's) bite
  • (one's) dogs are barking
  • a barking dog never bites
  • a barking dog seldom bites
  • all bark and no bite
  • bark (something) out (to someone)
  • bark (something) out at (someone)
  • bark (something) to (someone)
  • bark at
  • bark at (someone or something)
  • bark at the moon
  • bark is worse than one's bite
  • bark is worse than one's bite, one's
  • bark out at
  • bark up the wrong tree
  • bark up the wrong tree, to
  • barking dog never bites
  • barking dogs seldom bite
  • barking spider
  • be barking mad
  • be barking up the wrong tree
  • close as the bark to the tree
  • don't bark if you can't bite
  • go between the bark and the tree
  • has more bark than bite
  • his, her, etc. bark is worse than his, her, etc. bite
  • keep a dog and bark (oneself)
  • keep a dog and bark yourself
  • my dogs are barking
  • One's bark is worse than bite
  • someone's bark is worse than their bite
  • take the bark off
  • talk someone's arm off
  • the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
  • tight as the bark on a tree
  • why keep a dog and bark yourself
  • Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
  • your bark is worse than your bite
References in classic literature
"What?" said Don Quixote, "cross ourselves and weigh anchor; I mean, embark and cut the moorings by which the bark is held;" and the bark began to drift away slowly from the bank.
The man only shook his head and pointed to the pencil and the bark.
One of them even came to the door of the doghouse and said to me, `If you promise not to bark, we will make you a present of one of the chickens for your breakfast.' Did you hear that?
A moment later she was reading Tom's piece of bark through flowing tears and saying: "I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!"
When he went inside, the dogs did not bark at him, but wagged their tails quite amicably around him, ate what he set before them, and did not hurt one hair of his head.
A small twig is then stripped of its bark, and one end is dipped in the "medicine," as the trappers term the peculiar bait which they employ.
But the doggie ate up the pancake and barked, saying:
It would not be easy to determine whether our arrival gave us greater joy, or the inhabitants greater apprehensions, for we could discern a continual tumult in the land, and took notice that the crews of some barks that lay in the harbour were unlading with all possible diligence, to prevent the cargo from falling into our hands, very much indeed to the dissatisfaction of many of our soldiers, who having engaged in this expedition, with no other view than of filling their pockets, were, before the return of our Abyssin, for treating them like enemies, and taking them as a lawful prize.
"Oh, sir!" he cried, passing the bottle to Porthos, "we are saved -- the bark is supplied with provisions."
The canoe whirled with each cunning evolution of the chase, like a bubble floating in a whirlpool; and when the direction of the pursuit admitted of a straight course the little bark skimmed the lake with a velocity that urged the deer to seek its safety in some new turn.
Often he had heard his father and mother, on the safety of the sand, bark and rage their hatred of those terrible sea-dwellers, when, close to the beach, they appeared on the surface like logs awash.
--A golden bark saw I gleam on darkened waters, a sinking, drinking, reblinking, golden swing-bark!
But before he had fixed his ideas, eight of D'Artagnan's men, for two had remained to take care of the bark, brought to the house, where Parry received him, that object of an oblong form, which, for the moment inclosed the destinies of England.
He never barked. In all the time they had him he was never known to bark.
Having made the turn, the being sat motionless as before, while Toto barked louder at the white man than he had done at the black one.