"threat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Do not make the mistake of thinking this an empty threat.
- "He tried to turn things around one more time with his empty threats," she said.
- Was that threat empty, or had his failure allowed it to come in its own time?
- So in some ways the policy rests on an empty threat.
- For a moment, as she looked into his hot male gaze, it didn't sound like an empty threat at all.
- Make empty threats about what you'll do if he doesn't change.
- It was an empty threat - for now, at least - but she wouldn't know that.
- It was known that his were never empty threats they came to terms with him.
- But she knew Adam well enough by now to know he wouldn't make empty threats.
- But the practical effect of empty threats is the same.
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