sell wolf tickets slang , auch: sell woof tickets slang

We had little clashes with the Renegades about the lot, but it was mostly just selling wolf tickets, loudmouthing around.

Dana here is selling wolf tickets.

"You still have some players who are selling wolf tickets," Singletary said of the league's lesser lights in an interview Thursday.

At the press conference for UFC 158, headliner Nick Diaz accused promoter Dana White and opponent Georges St. Pierre of selling wolf tickets to fans:

By nature, he was a gentle, sensitive man, and even in the throes of angry threats against whites it was hard to hide a smile, for he loved what the blacks call 'selling wolf tickets', tricking people into fear.

The expression is usually used as a part of the phrase "to sell wolf tickets", meaning to bluff or threaten someone in a boastful way, or "to buy wolf tickets", meaning to call the bluff or accept the implied challenge.