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Digging Into "Eating Crow"
By Brady Carlson on Friday, August 11, 2006.
People might hunt crow but as we heard, there's little desire to eat them. The expression "to eat crow", meaning " to admit that you made a mistake", is familiar to most people. To find out where the expression came from, we called Micheal Quinion, the editor of World Wide Words based in England. Web resources:
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I really enjoy NHPR - it's always on in my car. But... I have to say that this morning's broadcast on crow hunting was a very unpleasant way to begin my drive to work.
Other than that, please continue with your quality programming.
Pamela Lysitt