Tag: cry wolf

  • Cry wolf

    Cry wolf

    Phrase: Cry wolf If you want to expand your vocabulary repertoire, follow the news. You can learn the English language, or any language for that matter, from the newspaper. Recent European events have provided us with the opportunity to look at the idiom cry wolf. When someone cries wolf, they raise a false alarm. Do…

  • Sabre-rattling

    Sabre-rattling

    WotD: Sabre-rattling In hindsight, we can now say what we thought was merely sabre-rattling was open preparation for war. The West had grown too comfortable with threats of war from Russia, North Korea and perhaps China. As Russia built up its forces on the borders of Ukraine, even conducting joint ‘exercises’ in Belarus, the world…