cry wolf

短语

发假警报

发音

AU

词形变化

cried wolf cries wolf 三单 cries wolf crying wolf crying wolf 现在分词 cried wolf 过去式 cried wolf 过去分词

别名

cry “wolf”

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To raise a false alarm; to constantly warn others about an imagined threat, thereby failing to get assistance when a real threat appears.

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    习语

    The politicians would cry wolf at the slightest provocation so when the real threat appeared no one believed them.

词源

From the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, where a little boy amuses himself by repeatedly crying "wolf" to see the panic he causes in the community, but is consequently ignored when he tries to alert them to a real wolf.

来源：wiktionary