Okay, I've been seeing this phrase all over and I have no idea what it means

papersun87

papersun87

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Hopefully I haven't used it in the wrong context accidentally . . . but I don't think I've used it, period.

"Eat crow."

What's it mean? :dunno

 
It's like, saying you were wrong about something...

Like if I said before the season started that Notre Dame would go undefeated because they are teh awesomez... I would be "eating crow" right now because I was way wrong...

 
AR Husker Fan said:
And the origin...
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Well that doesn't tell you very much, geezzz, let me have a go at this one...

It means to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable.

One of my very dorky hobbies is etymology. That phrase comes from the 1812 war, basically an American soldier was hunting on British territory, he shouldn't have been. He shot a crow, which a British officer heard. The officer got ticked off, tricked the American out of his weapon, and then told him he couldn't have his weapon back until he took a bite out of the crow he shot as punishment. He took the bite, gross.. The British officer gave him his weapon back, but tricky tricky, the American then forced the officer to eat the rest of the crow, double gross.. Crows aren't good eat'n by the way, especially raw.

 
slacker said:
AR Husker Fan said:
And the origin...
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Well that doesn't tell you very much, geezzz, let me have a go at this one...

It means to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable.

One of my very dorky hobbies is etymology. That phrase comes from the 1812 war, basically an American soldier was hunting on British territory, he shouldn't have been. He shot a crow, which a British officer heard. The officer got ticked off, tricked the American out of his weapon, and then told him he couldn't have his weapon back until he took a bite out of the crow he shot as punishment. He took the bite, gross.. The British officer gave him his weapon back, but tricky tricky, the American then forced the officer to eat the rest of the crow, double gross.. Crows aren't good eat'n by the way, especially raw.
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Ah - the rest of the story!

I'll have to bow to your obvious experience in eating raw crow. :lol:

 
AR Husker Fan said:
slacker said:
AR Husker Fan said:
And the origin...
Click to expand...
Well that doesn't tell you very much, geezzz, let me have a go at this one...

It means to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable.

One of my very dorky hobbies is etymology. That phrase comes from the 1812 war, basically an American soldier was hunting on British territory, he shouldn't have been. He shot a crow, which a British officer heard. The officer got ticked off, tricked the American out of his weapon, and then told him he couldn't have his weapon back until he took a bite out of the crow he shot as punishment. He took the bite, gross.. The British officer gave him his weapon back, but tricky tricky, the American then forced the officer to eat the rest of the crow, double gross.. Crows aren't good eat'n by the way, especially raw.
Click to expand...
Ah - the rest of the story!

I'll have to bow to your obvious experience in eating raw crow. :lol:
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:box

 
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