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
Bernadette	ber-na-DET (French)	French, English
Cloe	-	Spanish, Italian
Rochelle	-	English
Doncho	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Francisca	frahn-THEES-kah (Spanish), frahn-SEES-kah (Latin American Spanish), frən-SEESH-kə (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
AsbjÖRn	-	Swedish