more cry than wool

短语

发音

AU

别名

all cry and no wool

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Dramatic assertions that are backed by little evidence.

    习语

词源

Derived from the practice of shearing sheep, in which the sheep may "cry" as their wool is removed. The earliest recorded variation appears to be by 15th century English lawyer John Fortescue, who wrote "Moche Crye and no Wull" in De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), ch. x.

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