危言耸听

frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds

surname Wei

danger / to endanger / Taiwan pr. [wei2]

words / speech / to say / to talk

to excite / to raise up / to shrug / high / lofty / towering

smile (archaic)

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])