cry wolf 的定义
- Raise a false alarm, as in Helen's always crying wolf about attempted break-ins, but the police can never find any evidence. This term comes from the tale about a young shepherd watching his flock who, lonely and fearful, called for help by shouting “Wolf!” After people came to his aid several times and saw no wolf, they ignored his cries when a wolf actually attacked his sheep. The tale appeared in a translation of Aesop's fables by Roger L'Estrange, and the expression has been applied to any false alarm since the mid-1800s.
cry wolf 近义词
give a false alarm
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- “He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
- It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
- The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.
- “During this trip, I did as a lone wolf, I risked a lot,” he said.
- His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
- At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
- I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.
- A sob rose in her throat, and broke from her lips transformed into a trembling, sharp, glad cry.
- Antirosa had decided it was better to let the children "have their cry out," and the boy had gone to school.