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
CirÍAco	-	Portuguese, Spanish
Kathrine	-	Danish, Norwegian
Lennox	LEN-əks	Scottish, English (Rare)
SavaŞ	-	Turkish
Kiran	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali, Urdu
MathÚIn	-	Irish