more cry than wool
phraseEtymology
Derived from the practice of shearing sheep, in which the sheep may "cry" as their wool is removed. The earliest recorded variation appears to be by 15th century English lawyer John Fortescue, who wrote "Moche Crye and no Wull" in De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), ch. x.
Definitions
Dramatic assertions that are backed by little evidence.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for more cry than wool. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA