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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, [1] used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. [2] The crow is a carrion -eater that is presumably repulsive to eat in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. [ 2 ]
The story does indeed involve eating crows, but the OED has quotes of "eat crow" from the 1870's, and the story was only published in 1885. So it seems more likely that Kipling was using an existing expression. (By the way, some previous comments here mention quotes from the 1850's -- documentation, please?) "Eating Crow" Refers to the Native ...
Accounts say that he would cut out and eat the liver of each Crow killed. [4] This led to his being known as "Liver-Eating Johnson". One tale ascribed to Johnson [ 5 ] (while other sources ascribe it to Boone Helm [ 6 ] ) is that while on a foray of over five hundred miles (800 km) in the winter to sell whiskey to his Flathead kin, he was ...
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If you talk about food just as much as you eat it, you're in good company. We've got famous chefs and stars— Julia Child , Sophia Loren, Virginia Woolf—to thank for some of the greatest food ...
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As Vincent lies, seemingly dying, at the end of the film, he quotes the final couplet of "The Raven". In the 1983 film The Dead Zone, schoolteacher Johnny Smith quotes "The Raven" to his class during a lesson. [7] In the 1986 film Short Circuit, the robot Number 5 makes the comment "nevermore" in reference to a pet raven of Stephanie Speck's.
Crow found the snake asleep And, wanting her to eat, With his beak bit her awake: Waking up bitten, She gave the bite back, Her caress kissed him off. (I.432–438) [14] In England this version of the story first appeared in Roger L'Estrange's collection of Aesop's fables (1692), where he advised readers not to meddle with the unfamiliar. [15]