all bark and no bite

Adjective

 * 1)  Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
 * 2)  Often making cutting remarks, but having a gentle personality underneath.
 * 3)  Aggressive but never combative.

Translations

 * Catalan: moltes bufes i pocs trons, molta fressa i poca endreça
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 光說不做
 * Mandarin: 乾打雷，不下雨,
 * Finnish: paljon porua, vähän villoja
 * French:
 * German: große Klappe und nichts dahinter
 * Greek: όλο λόγια
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: tutto fumo e niente arrosto
 * Japanese: 張り子の虎
 * Khmer: ឆ្កែព្រុសមិនដែលខាំ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, cão que late não morde
 * Russian: пуста́я бо́чка гро́мче греми́т
 * Slovenian: peš, ki laja, ne griže
 * Spanish: mucho ruido y pocas nueces, ladra pero no muerde, irse la fuerza por la boca
 * Swedish: stor i orden men liten på jorden


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: kova päältä, pehmeä sisältä
 * Greek: σκυλί που γαβγίζει δεν δαγκώνει, σκύλος που γαβγίζει δεν δαγκώνει
 * Italian: cane che abbaia non morde
 * Khmer: បានតែព្រុស
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: perro ladrador, poco mordedor