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barking dog never bites, a

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 330 words | Copyright

barking dog never bites, a noisy threats often do not presage real danger; bark is contrasted with bite in a number of traditional phrases, especially one's bark is worse than one's bite. The proverb is recorded from the 16th century in English, but the idea is found in Latin in the works of the Roman historian Quintus Curtius.

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