cry wolf (too often)
1cry wolf — {v. phr.} To give a false alarm; warn of a danger that you know is not there. * /The general said that the candidate was just crying wolf when he said that the army was too weak to fight for the country./ (From an old story about a shepherd boy… …
2cry wolf — {v. phr.} To give a false alarm; warn of a danger that you know is not there. * /The general said that the candidate was just crying wolf when he said that the army was too weak to fight for the country./ (From an old story about a shepherd boy… …
3cry wolf — to ask for help when you do not need it, with the result that no one believes you when help is necessary. She had repeatedly rung the police for trivial reasons and perhaps she had cried wolf too often …
4cry wolf — phrasal Etymology: so called fr. the fable of the shepherd boy who gave the alarm of “wolf” in fun : to give alarm without occasion * * * cry wolf To give a false alarm, from the story of the boy who cried ‘Wolf’ when there was none, and was not… …
5cry wolf — to keep saying that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe you when there really is a problem Workers in the industry have cried wolf once too often …
6Wolf hunting — is the practice of hunting grey wolves (Canis lupus) or other lupine animals. Wolves are mainly hunted for sport, for their skins, to protect livestock, and in some rare cases to protect humans. Wolves have been actively hunted since 12,000 to 13 …
7wolf — wolf1 [ wulf ] (plural wolves [ wulvz ] ) noun count * a wild animal similar to a large dog that lives in groups the big bad wolf someone or something that is bad and causes all the problems in a situation: I get tired of being portrayed as the… …
8Gray Wolf — Taxobox name = Gray Wolf fossil range = Late Pleistocene Recent status = LC status system = iucn3.1 trend = stable status ref =IUCN2006|assessors=Mech Boitani|year=2004|id=3746|title=Canis lupus|downloaded=2006 05 05 Database entry includes… …
9When Doves Cry — Infobox Single Name = When Doves Cry Caption = U.S. 7 single Artist = Prince from Album = Purple Rain B side = 17 Days 1999 (UK 12 ) D.M.S.R. (UK 12 ) Released = 16 May, 1984 Format = 7 single 12 single Recorded = Sunset Sound, 1 March, 1984… …
10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
