プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
おどし【脅し・▲威し】
a threat
子供に知恵がついたのでもう脅しがきかない
The children are too smart now for threats to work.
暴力団の脅しにあって金を巻き上げられた
The gangsters used threats to get money from him./《米口》 He was shaken down by gangsters.
押し売りは女所帯とみて脅しにかかった
The salesman, finding there were only women in the house, tried the hard sell.
単なる脅しだよ
It's just 「a bluff [an empty threat].
脅し文句
threatening remarks [language]