brutum fulmen

短语

n. 虚张声势

词形变化

bruta fulmina 复数

别名

fulmen brutum

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A judgement without effect.

    法律
  2. 2.

    An empty threat.

    古体

词源

From Latin brutum (“stupid”) + fulmen (“lightning”), derived from a 1680 pamphlet by Thomas Barlow of that title, originally from a passage of Pliny's Natural History: "hinc bruta fulmina et vana" ("these senseless and ineffectual thunder-claps", intended as a literal description of lightning).

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