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 eBrewer'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.
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- “Don’t scream wolf when there is no wolf, boy!” the villagers warned. They angrily went back down the hill. Later, the shepherd boy cried out once again, “Wolf!
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- Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index.
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Once there was a young boy called Lyman. ... You probably know this story already. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a very famous story.
- It is the story of a boy who cried wolf everytime to play a prank on the villagers and they finally never came even when the wolf actually came.
- A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf!
- started), over and over again (Over and over again) I don't mind when you lie to me, I like to play pretend You're the boy who cried wolf...
- “It is the same boy who cried wolf last time; he cannot fool us again,” they said. The villagers thought that the boy was up to his old tricks.
- Long ago, there was a young, cheeky boy who looked after some sheep near a village. The boy was often bored. ... The boy cried and cried, “Wolf!
- Boy Who Cried Wolf. Aesop’s famous story has worked its way into the English Language.