variants:
or chest beating
Definition of chest-beating
: chest-thumping
His nationalist chest-beating also stirred up United States hostility toward his administration.— Alan Riding, New York Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1979
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The first known use of chest-beating was in 1937
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