Meaning of more cry than wool | Babel Free

Definitions

Dramatic assertions that are backed by little evidence.

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Examples

“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 is more Cry⟳ than Wool in all this Matter⟳ : For I dare, and do aſſure you, that, modeſtly ſpeaking the whole Quantity of what we work⟳ up in Ireland, amounts not to the Half of what any one Clothing-County in England does.”

“In rebuttal, the petitioner offers more 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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