cry of wolf
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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
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
This time his cry of wolf must have had a quaver of sincerity in it.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
At the cry of "wolf," he was very soon awake, though he did not lose that calm serenity that always distinguished him.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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