flex your muscles
US flex your muscle 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.
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muscle-flexing
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- gory
- hostile
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
- strong-arm
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