bark is worse than one's bite, one's

A person seems more hostile or aggressive than is the case, as in Dad sounds very grouchy in the morning, but his bark's worse than his bite. This phrase was a proverb by the mid-1600s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Meliton	-	Ancient Greek, Georgian
Ernestine	er-nes-TEE-nə (German), UR-nəs-teen (English)	French, German, English
Hadi	-	Arabic, Persian
Costin	-	Romanian
Rolland	[rɔ:'læŋ]
Rosetta	ro-ZET-tah	Italian