| Definitions | | more cry than wool |
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idiom
- Asserted but not grounded in reality.
- In rebuttal, the petitioner offers . 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. Aguilar-Solis v. INS, case no. 98-1484 (1st Cir. 1998)
Etymology: The earliest recorded variation appears to be by 15th century English lawyer w:John Fortescue, John Fortescue, who wrote "Moche Crye and no Wull" in De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), ch. x.
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