Digging Into "Eating Crow"

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By Brady Carlson on Friday, August 11, 2006.
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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.

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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

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