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What (who) is cry wolf - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Crying wolf; Cry wolf; Cry Wolf (film); Cry Wolf (disambiguation); Cry Wolf (song)

cry wolf         
raise repeated false alarms, so that a real cry for help is ignored. [with allusion to the fable of the shepherd boy who deluded people with false cries of 'Wolf!']
Cry Wolf (A-ha song)         
1986 SINGLE BY A-HA
Cry Wolf (a-ha)
"Cry Wolf" is a song by Norwegian band A-ha, released as the second single from their second studio album, Scoundrel Days (1986).
The Boy Who Cried Wolf         
  • Francis Barlow]]'s illustration of the fable, 1687
AESOP’S FABLE
The Boy who cried Wolf!; The Boy who cried Wolf; The boy who cried wolf; Boy Who Cried Wolf; Wolf cry; Boy who cried wolf; The Boy who Cried Wolf; The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and FableThe Concise Dictionary...

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Cry Wolf

To cry wolf means to raise a false alarm, derived from the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Cry Wolf may also refer to:

Examples of use of cry wolf
1. Israel cannot cry wolf when it is itself the biggest wolf on the block.
2. Russians have already heard Putin cry wolf with regard to NATO‘s eastward expansion.
3. "We try not to cry wolf and send out false alarms for things that aren‘t rotating.
4. It is far too easy for someone to cry wolf and leave a trail of destruction with no consequence.
5. Some may say, ‘Did we cry wolf?‘ The reality is that if the H5N1 virus doesn‘t trigger pandemic flu, there will be another virus that will," he said.