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sell wolf tickets

verb

Etymology

From wolf ticket/woof ticket, from woofing (“idly boasting”), from woofing (“(emptily/harmlessly) barking like a dog”). Woof ticket/wolf ticket is attested since the 1960s.

Definitions

  1. To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.

    • It's plenty people selling wolf tickets, you know.
    • I stood there in silence listening to Ollie build himself up by selling wolf tickets about what he planned to do to me.

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