remark in response to someone making big claims

big mouth, loud mouth

be audacious or impudent

might or affect to arise

to be on the go, on the up, progressing

have great prestige

be very greedy

to be imbued with might

trial of strength

to be reduced in power

to become powerless and helpless

find something unpalatable or disagreeable

be destroyed

turn pale (from embarrassment or fear)

the face to become yellow,' to turn pale (from fear)

pale, become pale with fear or alarm, to be surprise

to change colour, to turn pale (esp. from fear)