flex one's muscles
Verb
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Verb
- To tense and bend one's flexor muscles.
- (figuratively) To show off one's strength or skills.
- 2010, "Choppy waters", The Economist, 21 Jan 2010:
- But at a time of a growing perception in the West that China is flexing its muscles [...], countries closer to China’s shores also worry that it might be getting more assertive.
- 2010, "Choppy waters", The Economist, 21 Jan 2010:
- Russian: напряга́ть му́скулы
- German: Muskeln spielen lassen
- Russian: игра́ть му́скулами
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