Sentences with phrase «make idle threats»

Never make idle threats or false promises when negotiating with agents, and agents should also never do this in a transaction.

As his name implies, Chomper doesn't make idle threats.

But nor are they making idle threats.

Not exact matches

The Telegraph has said Johnson must learn not to make «idle threats».

But voters think enacting Cuomo's plan is less important than getting a budget in place before the April 1 deadline, and half said Cuomo's ultimatum was, «an idle political threat designed to make him look good.»

Ott had made a lot of idle threats in my direction before, but one of these days, he was bound to deliver, if only to get rid of the feeling that he was repeating himself.

Some can be rude, make idle (and illegal) threats, and just plain be a pain.

The Iowa men, accused of making online threats of violence against the World Pokemon Championships competition in Boston, were ordered held without bail Tuesday after Judge Thomas Horgan rejected arguments by their lawyers that their comments amounted to idle online bravado.

When a child makes a serious threat it should not be dismissed as just idle talk.