- - E.g. daily fun for kids, turning on The Phantom Menace?
- - First anniversary gift for a zookeeper?
- - *Feline metaphor for an empty threat
- - Cheeky one taken in by caller -- a person who's not a real threat
- - *One who's an empty threat
- - One pretending to be powerful
- - Pseudo-powerful one
- - One feigning courage
- - Cowardly Lion, for one
- - Bully with a glass jaw, for example
- - One who looks powerful but isn't
- - One outwardly powerful, inwardly weak
- - China's epithet for U. S. might.
- - One whose strength is illusory.
- - Party boss whose bark is worse than his bite
- - Seemingly strong opponent
- - Toothless threat
- - Empty threat
- - Threatening but ineffectual sort
- - Provides no real threat to most of 26 across with big cat
- - All-bark, no-bite type
- - Nothing to be afraid of, really
- - Bluff-and-bluster type
- - Something that shouldn't scare you
- - Person feigning power
- - Its bark is worse than its bite?
- - No real threat
- - Phantom menace
- - Toothless enemy
- - It's not as threatening as it looks
- - Person who appears powerful but isn't
- - Outwardly powerful but inwardly weak person
- - It has little bite
- - Its roar is worse than its bite
- - Blowhard (1st)
- - 1975 David Niven film
- - No big threat in Detroit?
- - Phony strong man
- - He's outwardly tough, inwardly weak
- - Fearsome weakling
- - Formidable weakling
- - Powerful-looking weakling
- - Ferocious fake.
- - Empty threat, in oriental parlance.
- - Empty threat [1st]
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