idiomdisapprovingtokeepaskingforhelpwhen you do not need it, with theresultthatpeoplethinkyou do not needhelpwhen you really need it:喊“狼来了”;发假警报If youcrywolftoo often,peoplewillstopbelievingyou.如果你常喊“狼来了”,人们便不会再相信你。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesFaking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
changeling
charlatan
cry
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
feign
fraud
mountebank
out-bluff
passsomethingoff assomething
phoney
play-act
professed
purport
quack
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cry wolf| American Dictionary
cry wolf
idiomtoaskforhelpwhen you do not need it, which maypreventpeoplefromhelpingyou when you do need it:Theadministrationhascriedwolfso manytimes, it'sdifficulttoknowif there's aproblemor not.(Definition ofcry wolffrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/cry-wolf##