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
Thus, when I rushed up to sound the real alarm, it was treated as a cry of "wolf."
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
No cry of wolf or coyote or cat gave reality to the wildness of forest-land.
From The Man of the Forest by Grey, Zane
