Definition of sabre rattler
sabre rattler
- an impotent warmonger. from the expression "to rattle one's sabre" an attempt to scare off or threaten one's enemy without actual force
Saddam Hussein isn't a threat, he's just a sabre-rattler.
by Anthony V., Sep 18 2004.
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