| 单词 | to cry wolf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cry ‘wolf’ a. to cry ‘wolf’: to raise a false alarm (in allusion to the fable of the shepherd boy who deluded people with false cries of ‘Wolf!’). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > warn [verb (intransitive)] > raise false alarm to cry ‘wolf’1858 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccclx. 332 The Boy..would be Crying a Wolf, a Wolf, when there was none, and then could not be Believed when there was.] 1858 D. M. Mulock Woman's Thoughts about Women xii. 316 She begins to suspect she is ‘not so young as she used to be’; that after crying ‘Wolf’ ever since the respectable maturity of seventeen—..the grim wolf, old age, is actually showing his teeth in the distance. 1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal xxxviii This is Beavis' cry of wolf, is it? < as lemmas |
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