"Great cry and little wool" nghĩa là gì?

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"Great cry and little wool" có wool là cơn giận dữ -> cụm từ này nghĩa là ồn ào, ầm ĩ vì những chuyện nhỏ nhặt, không quan trọng; 'việc bé xé ra to', 'làm lớn chuyện'.

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Accusing (buộc tội) the former CM of fooling (lừa gạt) farmers in the name of waving off their loans, Chouhan claimed that it was merely “great cry and little wool”. 

Systemic corruption cannot be contained by staging (dàn dựng) carnival. This clumsy, superficial  (hời hợt) approach only shows an inadequate (không xứng đáng) comprehension of what is after all, a nation threatening problem. You can beat the war drums, but there is no salvo, a great cry and little wool.

Hence, many had to react in unison (nhất trí) to MDA with: 'great cry and little wool.' The MDA had received 176,000 applicants for 20,000 plots of its much-publicised 'Taiser Town Phase-II' housing project. "My wife and I had waited for hours in long queues (hàng dài) outside a bank branch to submit two applications for different category plots. We have been impatiently waiting for the balloting, but today, when I logged in, I found the concerned web portal irresponsive," said Muhammad Hadi, an applicant.

Quikr, another startup that is a testament (là chứng cứ) to the saying “great cry and little wool” with 15 acquisitions (kiếm được), and Rs 173.49 crore worth consolidated revenue from operations after 10 years of operations, and positive cash balances only because of the sale of investment property and fixed assets.

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