0 to wave something in the air in a threatening or excited way:
1 to wave something in the air in a threatening or excited way:
The doctrinal aggiornamento of the left meant that the right could no longer brandish the red menace.
Official reports consummately brandished cold statistics.
Some of them now see it as something to brandish to stop this text progressing.
Brandishing rhetorical remarks about good order and discipline never helps in an industrial dis- pute.
There are also those who believe that it is possible to make people do things by brandishing the big stick of insecurity.
It is extremely important that those ideas should be dropped, and that even the threat of them should not be brandished before us.
No longer are statistics brandished to prove the barbarity of the practice.
The trade unions can continue to march their ghost armies through party conferences and brandish their block votes if that is what their members wish.
