英语词汇“wolf-cry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wolf-cry n. [ < verbal phrase to cry ‘wolf ’: see 10a] = false alarm n. at false adj. 14c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > warning arousing the unwary > alarm without cause

false alarm1579

wolf-cry1915

1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xxii. 315 I have a habit of losing things and setting the household in frantic search,..only to discover that I have had the wretched object in my pocket all the time. So accustomed is Barbara to this wolf-cry that if I came up to her without my head and informed her that I had lost it, she would be profoundly sceptical.

1980 Listener 9 Oct. 462/3 The news that the Met season might have to be cancelled..is an annual threat, a wolf-cry.

单词	wolf-cry
释义	> as lemmas wolf-cry wolf-cry n. [ < verbal phrase to cry ‘wolf ’: see 10a] = false alarm n. at false adj. 14c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > warning arousing the unwary > alarm without cause false alarm1579 wolf-cry1915 1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xxii. 315 I have a habit of losing things and setting the household in frantic search,..only to discover that I have had the wretched object in my pocket all the time. So accustomed is Barbara to this wolf-cry that if I came up to her without my head and informed her that I had lost it, she would be profoundly sceptical. 1980 Listener 9 Oct. 462/3 The news that the Met season might have to be cancelled..is an annual threat, a wolf-cry. extracted from wolfn. < as lemmas
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