alt Hacker NewsCrying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place.
That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom.
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weird-eye-issue • today at 12:36 PM
This is real life there's always a danger just at a different place.
If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.