In referring to an actual dog, if it is barking, that's as mean as it gets, it won't bite. When applied to a person, if someone is talking tough, they can't back it up with action.
On first meeting he appear to be a very stern indeed miserable old man. However, those that new him well all stated that, "his bark was worse than his bite"
For example: My dog loves to bark at the mailman. The rabbits had stripped the bark from all around the base of the new tree. The canoe was made of birch bark and pine pitch. His bark was worse than his bite.
It can mean someone is very threatening, but don't carry out their threats. They may seem very intimidating, but they are not as bad as they seem. So as they are just threatening and won't carry out their threat, then there is not much to worry about.
Staffordshire Bull Terriers tend to not bite as much as other breeds, but it all comes down to how the dog is bred, treated, fed and exercised and what kind of personality it has. Potentially, any dog can bite.
The phrase assumes that the "dog" is going to bark or bite. So sometimes it's better to avoid a bad situation and let it be, rather than stirring it up by "kicking the dog".
Its' (a dog) bark is often worse than its' bite.
On first meeting he appear to be a very stern indeed miserable old man. However, those that new him well all stated that, "his bark was worse than his bite"
This is not an idiom. The idiom is "her BARK is worse than her bite" which is a dog reference meaning that she and the dog make a lot of noise but aren't really dangerous. This sentence seems to mean that she has an injured shoulder which is worse than a bite that she also has.
Nothing.It is "Her BARK is worse than her bite." This refers to a dog, saying that they may have a scary bark, but they don't actually bite people. For a person, this would refer to someone with a sharp tongue but who doesn't actually resort to violence or other severe punishment.
For example: My dog loves to bark at the mailman. The rabbits had stripped the bark from all around the base of the new tree. The canoe was made of birch bark and pine pitch. His bark was worse than his bite.
Your words are worse(i.e. stronger) than your action, that the person talks tougher than he really is , that a person never carries out the threats that he makes.It means she yells and screams but isn't much of a danger.
It means that their bark is bigger than their bite. they bark all the time but there is a low chance of them ever going to bite you. Like when a dog barks at the door, it does not mean that they are going to bite whoever walks in, they are just barking.
It's a very old Scottish/Irish way of saying "I bet you can't back up all that s*** you're talking."
words are more powerful than pain
i dont think so because a moray has a bite as strong as a hyena and they have stronger bite force than barracudas
2003 Sci Fi/Comedy film written and directed by Rick Dunbar. While on an emergency medical mission, a starship is attacked by a tiny alien spaceship whose bark is worse than its bite.
Special Agent 7 - 1958 Worse Than the Bite 1-24 was released on: USA: 1959