Asking for help, even when you don’t need it. When you really need help, no one believes you.
To claim that something is happening when it isn’t
A false warning of danger
Intentionally raise a false alarm.
There's no point crying wolf just to stay up night a bit later.
The little boy had cried wolf so many times that when he was really sick no one believed him.
These doomsday cults have cried wolf so many times that no one even listens to them anymore.
As the children has cried wolf too often, the parents has stopped taking its notice.
There is no origin for this idiom
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