Multiple choice

Directions: Select the right meaning of the phrase given below from the given choices.

To cry wolf

  1. to give false alarm

  2. to listen eagerly

  3. to turn pale

  4. None of these
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Explanation

'To cry wolf' means to give a false alarm or warn of danger that doesn't exist. It comes from Aesop's fable where a shepherd boy repeatedly tricked villagers by shouting that a wolf was attacking the flock, so when a real wolf came, nobody believed him.

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