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Brutum Fulmen (Latin)

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A noisy but harmless threatening; an innocuous thunderbolt.

“His [the Pope’s] denunciations are but a brutum fulmen.”—The Standard.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Brunello (in Orlando Furioso)
Brunswicker
Brunt
Brush
Brush up (To)
Brut
Brut dAngleterre
Brute
Brute (Sir John)
Brute or Brutus
Brutum Fulmen (Latin)
Brutus (Junius)
Brutus (Marcus)
Bruxellois
Brydport Dagger
Bub
Bubastis
Bubble (A)
Bubble and Squeak
Bucca
Buccaneer