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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Triples39
Avg. degree1.91
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf → Aesop's Fables, Caxton, Classical, De, Edward Hughes, Europe, For, Francis Barlow, George Fyler Townsend, George Washington, Greek, Heinrich Steinhöwel's, Hieronymus Osius, However, In, It, Latin, Of, Peter Westmore, Roger L'Estrange
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf → Children's, Jest, Loeb Classical Library, Project GutenbergThe Shepherd, Shepherd Boy, The Boy Who Cried, The Shepherd's Boy, Wikimedia CommonsLaura Gibbs, Wikisource Media, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, Wolf, Works

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The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksChildren's0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksWorks0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksThe Boy Who Cried0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksWolf0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksWikisource Media0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksThe Shepherd's Boy0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksWikimedia CommonsLaura Gibbs0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksShepherd Boy0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksProject GutenbergThe Shepherd0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksJest0.60section
The Boy Who Cried Wolfrelated to External linksLoeb Classical Library0.60section

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