cry of wolf
Example Sentences
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More probably, the very volume and intensity of coup talk had dulled his political antennae; the cry of wolf was sounding old and tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet The Limits to Growth cannot be dismissed as just another cry of wolf.
From Time Magazine Archive
To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am never governed in my policy by the fact that the cry of wolf has been often raised—I look out for the wolf all the same.'
From The Dictator by McCarthy, Justin
Yet it is never safe to neglect the cry of "wolf": our most remarkable discovery, the Temple at the Wady Hamz, was made when report promised least.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
