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词汇 example_english_idle-threat
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idle threat

collocation in English

meanings of idleand threat


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idle
adjective
uk /ˈaɪ.dəl/ us /ˈaɪ.dəl/
not working or ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk /θret/ us /θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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Examples of idle threat


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This proved to be an idlethreat.
That is no idlethreat.
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This is no idlethreat.
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Those are not just an idlethreat.
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It must not be an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That is no idlethreat at all.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That will be no idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The prisoner knows that that is not an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

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They are not up in arms about some idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not say that as an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not regard that as an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

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It should not just be an idlethreat.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We all know that that is an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I hope that it was only an idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

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Political instability is not an idlethreat in the middle east.
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If this is a continuing policy, one has to conclude that it is no idlethreat.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There is the idlethreat, with which we are all familiar.
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Hansard archive

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I do not think that was necessarily just an idlethreat.
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It is not an idlethreat.
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Wikipedia

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This is no idlethreat, no irresponsible judgment, but a sober recognition of the realities of the situation.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Indeed, a threat to take tariffs away was an idlethreat, because the repercussions in the country would have been disastrous.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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