You are all bark, but no bite!?

Question

What does this mean?

Answer 1

i have no clue what so ever. look it up in an Idiom book.

Answer 2

Bark with no Bite means basically this: You talk about actually DOING all kinds of things, but all you do about it is talk and never actually get anything done. Like there is a guy I know for example, who is always talking about all the stuff he has and all he INTENDS to do, mostly about buying houses and cars... Yet he doesn't seem to have any of the things he brags about.....

all talk/bark, no bite/action..............


good luck, hope someone didn't think that was you!!

Answer 3

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/rn8fI

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 4

A dog barks...and barks and barks. This mean that it threatens action or calls attention to itself, but is afraid to actually physically confront the situation or person that he is barking about.

Lets say for instance, a dog is barking to you and you are on the other side of the fence. So he yaps, and yaps...running from one end of the fence to the other...barking and barking.

Now imagine there is another dog on the other side, that pays him no attention, or is midly amused. He knows that if the fence was not between them the dog that is barking and barking at him, would be hiding from him instead.

The fence gives the barking dog confidence because it is protecting him, but without it...he could possibly be the one to lose the fight or would not appear as aggressive as he does now.

The barking dog, does not have the will to actually carry out the threats of his barks.

Answer 5

It's usually a term given to people who are scared on the inside, but talk and yell loud on the outside so that others don't mess with them.
All bark = Much noise, talking, yelling, threats, etc...
No Bite = Doesn't back up the threats, no action taken, chicken, etc...

Another phrase like it is a classic from Shakespeare: "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Answer 6

It's like a dog, who barks and barks and barks, trying to scare you away - but the second you move towards it, it runs and hides.

It means you're really vocal about something, but when push comes to shove, you can't back up your words with action.

Answer 7

It means that you have a loud mouth but you can't follow it up with an action...like those nasty little dogs that bark alot but never actually attack w/a bite.

Answer 8

all talk and no balls to actually do anything about it is what it means. like a yiping dog who barks at strangers but runs from them when they actually come in. any time somebody would say, "yeah, well if he ever said that to my face, i'd kick his a**" might be all bark and no bite if they actually DIDN'T kick his a** when the time came!

Answer 9

it means you talk but you don't do anything about it, just talk

like a watchdog that barks real threateningly (like it would attack you if if could) but then if you move toward it it runs off

so, if you're all talk, then "your bark is worse than your bite"

Answer 10

Isn;t that from a root bear commercial or something? Barks Root Bear I think?

Answer 11

like a mouthy sheppard who barks continuous but would not even bite a flea