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单词 cry wolf
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cry wolf

disapproving

to keep asking for help when you do not need it, with the result that people think you do not need help when you really need it:

If you cry wolf too often, people will stop believing you.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Faking & pretending

  • a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
  • affect
  • assume
  • believe
  • bluff
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • feign
  • fraud
  • go through the motions idiom
  • guise
  • impostor
  • play at sth
  • play possum idiom
  • play sth out
  • play-acting
  • pose as sb
  • professed
  • purport
  • quack

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cry wolf

to ask for help when you do not need it, which may prevent people from helping you when you do need it:

The administration has cried wolf so many times, it's difficult to know if there's a problem or not.
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