
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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Authors | Aesop |
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Preceded by | The Ant and the Grasshopper |
Followed by | The Wind and the Sun: Is Kindness Better Than Force? |
Genres | Fable |
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ID | 972786 |
About 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 . . .