You'll only chew off your foot when you're stuck in a rut but the trap has already been sprung, suspended, hung up high and dry, there to pull out your hair watching the world going by and you'll know that you're going nowhere.
They will throw you a dime every time you cry wolf when the sheep in you just wants to sleep but when it's pitch black out where, the wolf stirs from his lair only then, will you start to worry.