雷聲大,雨點小 (lei2 sheng1 da4, yu2 dian3 xiao3; ph) a lot of talk but little action.
After weeks of threatening rhetoric from North Korea, some of us might wonder how the dispute will end. There had been no signs of war in the past few days and the high-pitched provocation from Pyongyang seems like a dream now. 打,還是不打?
Related words:
北韓 bei3 han2 (n) N. Korea
南韓 nan2 han2 )n) S. Korea
衝突 chong1 tu2 (n/v) conflict; to collide
威脅 wei1 xie2 (n/v) threat; to threaten