Usually means: Lying about danger repeatedly; untrusted.
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  1. cry wolf: Merriam-Webster
  2. cry wolf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cry wolf: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cry-wolf: Wordnik
  5. cry wolf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cry wolf: Wiktionary
  7. cry wolf: Dictionary.com
  8. Cry Wolf (A-ha song), Cry Wolf (Laura Branigan song), Cry Wolf (album), Cry Wolf (band), Cry Wolf (disambiguation), Cry Wolf (novel), Cry Wolf, Cry wolf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Cry Wolf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Cry Wolf: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  11. cry wolf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. cry wolf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cry wolf: Idioms

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  1. cry wolf: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cry wolf)

verb:  (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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