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Option 2 : to raise false alarms

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सही उत्तर to raise false alarms है।

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Question:

What does the idiom "to cry wolf" mean?

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to howl in grief
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to raise false alarms
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to hunt in a pack
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to flee from danger

Correct Answer: to raise false alarms

From Aesop's fable of the shepherd boy who repeatedly tricked the villagers with false cries of "wolf", "to cry wolf" means to raise false alarms so often that a real warning is ignored.

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