Have students read Crying Wolf — The Wolf as Symbol in Folklore, and discuss how common figures of speech might affect people's perceptions of wolves. (educationworld.com)
Hm... ten years is actually a pretty common figure on how long it takes to learn the skills to be a successful writer (depending on your definition of successful). (jimchines.com)
Update: this looks to be an error from Disney as this figure is just a standard common figure. (vinylmationkingdom.com)