狼おおかみ少しょう年ねん

noun

boy raised by wolves

Refers to the legendary figure of a child brought up by wolves, like Romulus and Remus or Mowgli.

• 狼おおかみ少しょう年ねんの話はなしは、古こ代だいローマの建けん国こく神しん話わにも出でてくる。

  The story of the boy raised by wolves appears in the founding myth of ancient Rome.

noun

boy who cried wolf

From Aesop's fable; used for someone who repeatedly raises false alarms and loses credibility.

• 彼かれは何なん度ども嘘うそをついたので、まるで狼おおかみ少しょう年ねんのように誰だれも信しんじなくなった。

  He lied so many times that, like the boy who cried wolf, no one believed him anymore.