“Throw one's weight around”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English shoves people aside with its bulk, and French swaggers, rouler des mécaniques, shoulders rolling like a man showing off his muscles.

Chinese 狐假虎威, the fox borrowing the tiger's might, comes from an old fable: a fox walks in front of a tiger, the other animals flee, and the fox claims they're afraid of him. It's said of someone who bullies with power that isn't really theirs.