chest beating
Gorilla intimidation display
Chest beating is dramatic self-promotion or aggressive display of dominance, from the gesture gorillas use to assert themselves.
Someone engaged in chest beating makes a show of strength, accomplishment, or superiority: The press conference was more chest beating than substance.
The term usually carries a dismissive tone, suggesting the display is more bluster than genuine power.
- gorillaLargest great ape
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- boastingExcessive self-praise
- bravadoPretense of fearlessness
thumping · fists · silverback · aggression · primal · primal instinct · display · swagger · machismo · pounding · triumph · intimidation · show of force · roar · war cry · alpha · alpha male · posturing
- Shia MourningAshura, Muharram, mourning, lamentation, Husayn ibn Ali
- animal signalsbody language, bird songs, tail wagging, mating calls, whale song
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
- monkey behaviorswinging, grooming, tree climbing, howling, screeching
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- matingmating, breeding, courtship display, mating display, mating dance
chest beatinghumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · self-effacement · humble pie · meekness · self-deprecation
chest beatingunderstatement
Intentional diminishment for effect
silence · restraint · discretion · subtlety · reserve
chest beatingself-doubt
Uncertainty about oneself
timidity · deference · submissiveness · kowtowing · genuflection
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