more cry than wool

Meaning: (idiomatic)Dramaticassertionsthat arebackedby littleevidence.1747, John Smith,Chronicon Ruſticum Commerciale; or, Memoirs of Wool, &c., London:T. Osborne,page304:Theſe are the Crimes of which we are guilty, before any Law to prohibit us: it were more allowable to plant Poiſon than to Manufacture with us, and we lie, it ſeems, under ſuch an Obloquy and Clamour, (which, as far as I can judge by your Letter, you alſo liſten to) that, as to import our Cattle to you is a Nuſance, and to export our Wools is Felony ; ſo, by Gradation, to erect here a Manufacture ought to be no leſs than Treaſon. And yet there ismore Cry than Woolin all this Matter : For I dare, and do aſſure you, that, modeſtly ſpeaking the whole Quantity of what we work up inIreland, amounts not to the Half of what any one Clothing-County inEnglanddoes.1999February 26,Bruce M. Selya, “Aguilar-Solis v. INS”, in1st Cir. 1999‎[1],case no. 98-1484:In rebuttal, the petitioner offersmore cry than wool. He points first to the vague threats that his family and friends relayed to him during his 1990 return to El Salvador, and speculates that members of the FMLN still sought to harm him at that time. This is unabashed surmise.

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