| 单词 | a white crow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa white crow a. In phrases and proverbial sayings, as as black as a crow, the crow thinks its own bird fairest (or white), etc. a white crow: i.e. a rara avis. to eat (boiled) crow (U.S. colloquial): to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable and humiliating. ΚΠ 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 490 So suart so eni crowe amorwe is fot was. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1832 As blak he lay as any col or crowe. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. Prol. 78 The blak craw thinkis hyr awin byrdis quhite. 1536 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Convocation in J. Watkins Serm. & Life Latimer (1858) I. 40 A proverb much used: ‘An evil crow, an evil egg.’ 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 12 For any chaste liuer to haunt them, was a black swan, & a white crow. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 675 He triumpheth like a crow in a gutter. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. ii. ii. 512 Every crow thinks her owne bird fairest. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 98 As fruitful a place, as any the Crow flies over. View more context for this quotation 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. lvi. 235 The rara avis—the white crow—a good President. 1851 San Francisco Picayune 3 Dec. 1/6 I kin eat a crow, but I'll be darned if I hanker after it.] 1872 Daily News 31 July Both [are]..in the curious slang of American politics, ‘boiled crow’ to their adherents. 1877 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 8 186/1 A newspaper editor, who is obliged..to advocate ‘principles’ different from those which he supported a short time before, is said to ‘eat boiled crow’. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) II. 443 Warner and Clark are eating their daily crow in the paper. 1885 Mag. Amer. Hist. 13 199 ‘To eat crow’ means to recant, or to humiliate oneself. 1904 Newark Advertiser 12 July 4 There appears to be one disappointed man who can't eat his crow without making faces over it. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxiv. 196 I should merely be making an ass of myself if I accused someone and then had to eat crow. 1970 New Yorker 17 Oct. 39/1 I was going to apologize, eat crow, offer to kiss and make up. < as lemmas |
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