bark is worse than one's bite

One sounds much fiercer than one actually is. Listed in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, this saying dates back at least to the mid-seventeenth century and is used often enough to be a cliché.

See also: bark, bite, worse

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

drive (one) out of office
force (one) out of office
force out of office
give (one) (one's) head
give head
give somebody their head
give someone their head
cooking for one
1FTR
as one door closes, another (one) opens

词组	bark is worse than one's bite
释义	bark is worse than one's bite bark is worse than one's bite One sounds much fiercer than one actually is. Listed in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, this saying dates back at least to the mid-seventeenth century and is used often enough to be a cliché. See also: bark, bite, worse The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: drive (one) out of office force (one) out of office force out of office give (one) (one's) head give head give somebody their head give someone their head cooking for one 1FTR as one door closes, another (one) opens
随便看	bet the ranch betty bet up be turfed be turfed out between between a rock and a hard place between dog and wolf between hawk and buzzard between hay and grass between jobs between life and death between ourselves between projects between Scylla and Charybdis between (someone or something) and (someone or something else) between the devil and the deep blue sea between the hammer and the anvil between the jigs and the reels between the/(one's) ears between the pipes between the sheets between the sticks between two fires between two stools, one falls to the ground