Discussion
To cry wolf
Answer: B
To cry wolf means to give false alarm: to call for help when there is no need, so that one is not believed when there really is danger.
It comes from the fable of the shepherd boy who kept shouting 'Wolf!' as a joke. When a wolf really came, the villagers ignored his cries.
The other choices are the meanings of other expressions: to be all ears (to listen eagerly), to turn pale, and to keep the wolf from the door (to keep off starvation), which shares a word with this idiom but not its meaning.
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