The boy who cried wolf

[nq:1]Please, can someone explain to me the meaning and origin of the phrase "The boy who cried wolf"[/nq]
Did you find all of the 201,000 Google hits for the phrase hard to understand?

Mike.

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[nq:1]Please, can someone explain to me the meaning and origin of the phrase "The boy who cried wolf"[/nq]
It's from an old fable.
A boy, entrusted to look after a flock of sheep, gets bored and shouts "Help! Wolf!", then mocks the villagers who came running because there was no wolf after all. Later, when there really *is* a wolf, the villagers assume the boy is lying again and his shouts

[nq:1]Please, can someone explain to me the meaning and origin of the phrase "The boy who cried wolf"[/nq]
google is your friend
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html

The simple punch line is; The boy lied, crying 'wolf' to warn his neighbors, many times. This w

[nq:2]Please, can someone explain to me the meaning and origin of the phrase "The boy who cried wolf"[/nq]
[nq:1]It's from an old fable. A boy, entrusted to look after a flock of sheep, gets bored and shouts "Help! ... when there really *is* a wolf, the villagers assume the boy is lying again and his shouts go ignored. Eq.[/nq]
It seems Aesop is no longer in the curriculum. It is more impo

[nq:2]It's from an old fable. A boy, entrusted to look ... boy is lying again and his shouts go ignored. Eq.[/nq]
[nq:1]It seems Aesop is no longer in the curriculum.[/nq]
If it makes you feel any better, he wasn't in the curriculum where I went to school 50 years ago. (Of course before No Child Left Behind, different school systemss had different curricula** so different people learned di

[nq:2]Please, can someone explain to me the meaning and origin of the phrase "The boy who cried wolf"[/nq]
[nq:1]It's from an old fable. A boy, entrusted to look after a flock of sheep, gets bored and shouts "Help! ... when there really *is* a wolf, the villagers assume the boy is lying again and his shouts go ignored. Eq.[/nq]
And he gets eaten by the wolf, doesn't he?

[nq:2]It's from an old fable. A boy, entrusted to look ... boy is lying again and his shouts go ignored. Eq.[/nq]
[nq:1]And he gets eaten by the wolf, doesn't he?[/nq]
Yes. That's how the story ends.
You can see his name incribed on the Shepherd's Memorial, in Billings, Montana, along with 12 other named and unnamed children eaten by wolves in the course of their duties.
If you are

[nq:2]And he gets eaten by the wolf, doesn't he?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes. That's how the story ends. You can see his name incribed on the Shepherd's Memorial, in Billings, Montana, along with 12 other named and unnamed children eaten by wolves in the course of their duties.[/nq]
I like that. Name them, shame them, and then have them eaten by wolves. Beats our UK ASBO practice hands down.

R

[nq:2]It seems Aesop is no longer in the curriculum.[/nq]
[nq:1]If it makes you feel any better, he wasn't in the curriculum where I went to school 50 years ago. ... different. Now a lot of schools do nothing but teach to the test, and others do too much of that.[/nq]
At the very least it was on The Rocky and Bullwinke Show, {fractured fairy tales segment}
[nq:1]It was actually annoyin

[nq:2]It was actually annoying to me as a small child ... really incomprenhensible if you have never heard the second half.[/nq]
[nq:1]Did you ask for clarification?[/nq]
I wasnt' that type. I was between 6 and 10. And they weren't talking to me when they said these things. I just waited and eventually found out what the whose saying was.
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