cry of wolf
Example Sentences
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Yet The Limits to Growth cannot be dismissed as just another cry of 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
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
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
They had been on the eve of ruin so many times, that the cry of "wolf" was not so alarming as formerly.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
