flex your muscles
Definition
› to try to worry an opponent or enemy by publicly showing military, political, or financial power: The parade is the first sign of the new regime flexing its military muscles. → See also muscle-flexingViolent or aggressiveUnkind, cruel and unfeelingTreating people or animals badly
(Definition of flex your muscles from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aggressive adjective
- aggro noun
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious adjective (CRUEL)
- atrocity noun
- bloodletting noun
- ferocious adjective
- fierce adjective
- fiercely adverb
- fighting words noun
- forced adjective
- forcible adjective (USING PHYSICAL POWER)
- hostile adjective (ENEMY)
- road rage noun
- roughly adverb (VIOLENTLY)
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling noun
- savagely adverb
- savagery noun
- violently adverb
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