barking dogs seldom bite - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- People who make threats rarely carry them out.
people who make threats rarely carry them out
- Albanian: qeni që leh, s'të ha
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: zakur zaunkaria nekez hozkaria
- Catalan: gos que lladra, no mossega
- Chinese:
- Czech: pes, který štěká, nekouše (cs)
- Danish: gøende hunde bider sjældent
- Dutch: blaffende honden bijten niet
- Esperanto: bojanta hundo ne mordas, ne ĉio batas, kio tondras, kiu multe parolas, ne multe faras
- Finnish: haukkuva koira ei pure
- French: chien qui aboie ne mord pas (fr)
- German: Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht (de)
- Greek: σκύλος που γαβγίζει δεν δαγκώνει (skýlos pou gavgízei den dagkónei), σκυλί που γαβγίζει δεν δαγκώνει (skylí pou gavgízei den dagkónei)
- Hungarian: amelyik kutya ugat, az nem harap (hu)
- Ingrian: haukkuva koira ei konskaa pure
- Italian: can che abbaia non morde, (rare) cane che abbaia non morde
- Japanese: 弱い犬ほどよく吠る (よわいいぬほどよくほえる, yowai inu hodo yoku hoeru), 能無し犬の高吠え (のうなしいぬのたかぼえ, nōnashi inu no takaboe)
- Korean: 짖는 개는 물지 않는다 (ko) (jinneun gaeneun mulji anneunda)
- Latin: canis sine dentibus vehementius lātrat
- Macedonian: куче што лае, не каса (kuče što lae, ne kasa)
- Malay:
- Malayalam: കുരയ്ക്കുന്ന പട്ടി കടിക്കില്ല (kuraykkunna paṭṭi kaṭikkilla)
- Polish: pies, co bardzo szczeka, nie bardzo kąsa, krowa, która dużo ryczy, mało mleka daje (pl)
- Portuguese: cão que ladra não morde (pt), cão que late não morde (literally “A dog that barks does not bite”)
- Romanian: câinele care latră nu mușcă
- Russian: соба́ка, кото́рая ла́ет — не куса́ет (sobáka, kotóraja lájet — ne kusájet), ла́ющая соба́ка не куса́ет (lájuščaja sobáka ne kusájet)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пас који ла̏је не гризе
- Roman: pas koji laje ne grize
- Slovene: pes, ki laja, ne grize
- Spanish: perro ladrador, poco mordedor, perro que ladra no muerde
- Sranan Tongo: a no babariman e broko pranasi
- Swedish: skällande hund bits inte
- Tagalog: ang asong kahol nang kahol ay hindi nangangagat (literally), ang asong tahol nang tahol ay hindi nangangagat
- Tamil: குரைக்கும் நாய் கடிக்காது (kuraikkum nāy kaṭikkātu)
- Telugu: అరిచే కుక్క కరవదు (te) (aricē kukka karavadu), మొరిగే కుక్క కరవదు (te) (morigē kukka karavadu)
- Thai: หมาเห่าไม่กัด (th) (mǎa hào mâi gàt)
- Turkish: havlayan köpek ısırmaz
- Vietnamese: chó sủa là chó không cắn
- Walloon: li tchén ki baweye ni hagne nén (wa), tchén ki hawe ni hagne nén (wa), les tchéns ki hawèt n' hagnèt nén (wa)
- Gregory Y. Titelman (1996) “barking dogs never bite”, in Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, Random House, →ISBN, page 20