Cry Wolf

Cry wolf is an expression that means "raise a false alarm", derived from the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Cry Wolf may also refer to:

In music:

  • "Cry Wolf" (Venom), 1983 song by Venom
  • "Cry Wolf" (song), 1986 song by a-ha
  • "Cry Wolf" (Branigan), 1987 song by Laura Branigan later covered by Stevie Nicks
  • "Cry Wolf" (Geronimo), 1994 song by Lisa Germano
  • Cry Wolf (band), heavy metal band

In film and television:

  • Cry Wolf (1947 film), mystery film starring Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck
  • Cry Wolf (2005 film), murder mystery film starring Julian Morris and Lindy Booth
  • "Cry Wolf" (Thunderbirds episode), an episode of the television series Thunderbirds
  • "Columbo Cries Wolf", an episode of the television series Columbo

In literature

  • Cry Wolf (novel) – a 1993 novel by Tami Hoag

Famous quotes containing the words cry and/or wolf:

    “If you are not willing to lose all the labour you have been at to break the will of your child, to bring his will into subjection to yours that it may be afterward subject to the will of God, there is one advice which, though little known, should be particularly attended. . . . It is this; never, on any account, give a child anything that it cries for. . . . If you give a child what he cries for, you pay him for crying: and then he will certainly cry again.”
    —John Welsley (18th century)

    “I wander on, and wave my hands,
    And sing, and shake my heavy locks.
    The grey wolf knows me; by one ear
    I lead along the woodland deer;
    The hares run by me growing bold.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)