21.   It is not an idle threat, he said.

22.   It was no idle threat.

23.   It was not a new sentiment and it is now clear it was not an idle threat.

24.   Maybe the kids made an idle threat, something they would never act on.

25.   Nor were those idle threats about a physical hammer that was about to be dropped on the Stars.

26.   One of them, Mathieu Kalele, a sociology professor at the University of Kinshasa, knows only too well that being jailed is no idle threat.

27.   Our idle threats over Chechnya are counterproductive.

28.   Still, these may not have been idle threats.

29.   That may not be an idle threat.

30.   That is no idle threat.