Threaten Phrases

Phrases

• Brush back (A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally)
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put the frighteners on
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)