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
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
An old hound soon marks the inexperienced voice of the babbler, and after the cry of "wolf" has been again repeated, nothing will induce him to join the false finder.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
The city has heard the cry of wolf so often that it refuses to listen when he is snarling at the door, particularly when the door is next door.
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna
