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All bark and no bite

[ 2012-05-23 11:02]

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A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public.

My comments:

Dogs bark and bite. However, some dogs that bark the loudest are observed to be less tenacious than they appear to be – they bark but daren’t actually attack (bite).

Hence, appropriately this idiom is used here on a piece of legislative proposal on cats and dogs. It stunned Italy but turned out to be all bark and no bite – withdrawn on the same day it was made public.

In other words, all talk and no walk (action).

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