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What does cry wolf mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) 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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If our weather forecasters cry wolf again, we're just not going to believe them next time are we?
Mr Abitbol and Mr Berthu, I would hope, when it comes down it, that people will not cry wolf too often.
When you cry wolf too often, nobody pays attention when the real wolf comes to the door.
If it can afford those kind of tax cuts while sitting on half a billion dollars, it cannot cry wolf too often as it has.
And you said these labels should not be put on, because there could be mass confusion, because things can become too labelled and you cry wolf too often, and people don't pay attention.
The politicians would cry wolf at the slightest provocation so when the real threat appeared no one believed them.

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