A mocking response to great promises or threats that come to nothing.
SOURCE: Stutchkoff, Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh.
SOURCE: Bernstein, Jüdische Sprichwörter und Redensarten.
(details from paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and a follower of Hieronymus Bosch)
Love is blind. SOURCE: Stutchkoff, Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh.