cry of wolf

Example Sentences

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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

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

All ears were strained to hear the first shot; and the suspense was probably more poignant than in later times when we had grown accustomed to the cry of wolf.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

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