Big Bad Wolf

Cultural  

1. The wicked but ineffectual enemy of the three pigs, who threatens each of them in turn by saying, “I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down!” In some versions of the story, the wolf eats two of the pigs.

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Example Sentences

Still, as in many politically divided households across the land, Jones needs answers: “When it comes to my parents,” she writes, “I want to ask them this question: Who exactly is the big bad wolf, or is it a mythical creature created in their own heads based on” what Tucker Carlson once told them on Fox?

From Los Angeles Times

"This is not a colossus, this is not the big bad wolf, this is not a vigorous and incredibly deft political communicator. This is an old man in decline who's been doing the same schtick for a very long time and it's really wearing thin."

From Salon

He says the three opposition candidates are like "the three little pigs" who must unite to defeat the "big bad wolf" of the ruling DPP.

From BBC

The climax of "No More Secrets" is predictable: At last the students' parents show up to defeat the Big Bad Wolf.

From Salon

Berber said that a month ago a men’s basketball player walked closely behind her in a hallway and said, “There’s the big, bad wolf.”

From Los Angeles Times