Eat crows is an everyday idiom, used in English-speaking countries which means humiliation by admitting to being proven wrong after taking a strong position. Crows may be dirty in the same way that proved to be wrong may be emotionally difficult to swallow. The origin of the idiom is unknown, but it may begin with an American story published around 1850 about a gloomy New York farmer. Eat the crow is an idiom family associated with eating and proven to be wrong, such as "eating poop" and "eating your hat" (or shoes), all probably from "to eat one's words", the first appeared in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts, in Psalm 62: "God does not eat his words when he speaks."
An Australian demon for South Australians is croweater but does not carry the same idomatic meaning as eating crows.
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The original theory
Literally eating a crow is traditionally seen as unpleasant; the crow is one of the birds listed in Leviticus chapter 11 because it is not worth eating. Wicket scavengers have a long relationship with the battlefield, "They left the corpse behind for crows, never a bigger slaughter on the island," the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle said. Along with hawks, rats and other vultures, there is a tradition in Western culture that goes back to at least the Middle Ages because it considers them as unpleasant (sometimes even illegitimate) to eat, and thus embarrassing naturally if forced to consume one's will.
In a modern figurative sense that proved to be false, the crow's meal probably first appeared in print in 1850, as a piece of American humor about a rube farmer near Lake Mahopack, New York. The OED V2 says the story was first published as "Eating Crow" in San Francisco's Daily Evening Picayune (Dec. 3, 1851), but two other early versions existed, one on The Knickerbocker (unknown date), and one on Saturday Evening Post (2 November 1850) called "Can You Eat Crow?". All told the same story: a farmer in New York who was slowly exhausted by his people (who were considered to be urban); after they complained about the poor food being served, the farmer discounted the complaint by claiming he was "any relative ate", and the hostel dwellers wondered if he could eat the crows. "I'm a relative eating a crow!" said the farmer. The residents of the dormitory accepted it with a challenge but also quietly surged the crow with a Scotch snuff. The story ends with the farmer saying: "I relatives eat crows, but I am damned if I am interested afterwards." Although the humor may have produced a weak smile today, it may be a knee slapper according to the standard of the nineteenth century, ensuring the story will be retold and word-of-mouth, explaining, in part, the origin of the idiom. In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called "Crow Eating" in his collection Mrs. Carpet-Bag Park of Fun .
The same English Idiom is to eat a humble cake . The English phrase is something of a pun of - "umbles" is the intestines, offal and other less valued deer. Pies made from this are said to be served to people from lower classes who do not eat at the table of kings/nobles/governors, probably after speculation on the Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there is little evidence for this. Early references in recipe books like Liber Cure Cocorum serve great dishes with exotic spices. Another dish that might be served with a simple pie is a rook cake (crow crows closely associated with a crow). "Pie" is also an ancient term for European magpie birds, a kind of crow. There is a parallel to the American version of "umble", since the Oxford English Dictionary defines crow (sb3) as the meaning of "gut or mesenterium of animals" and cites the use of the 17th century to the 19th century century (eg, Farley, Londor Cooking Art : "harsh, consisting of hearts, crows, kidneys, and skirts)." Maps Eating crow
South Australia Croweater
A popular Australian demo for South Australians is "Croweater". The earliest date of use was known to 1881 in JCF Johnson's book "To Mount Browne and Back" which writes: "I met with shocking information that all Adelaide men were trawlers... because it was confirmed that the early settlers.. , when the shortage of goat meat, make food from the unwary crows ". According to a periodic report from the Australian National Dictionary Center, the early settlers actually ate parrots and parrots. How they are known as crow eaters is unknown but especially this term emerged after American use in 1850 but did not carry the same idiomatic or pejorative meaning that proved wrong.
Popular usage examples
The following examples illustrate the use of the famous idiom after its origin in the 1850s.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) used this concept as a central metaphor in his short story "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes" (1885). Morrowbie Jukes, a European colonist in India, falls into a sand pit where he can not escape. Another man, an indigenous Indian, was also caught there who caught the wild crow and ate it, but Morrowbie in his pride stated, "I'll never eat a crow!" After days of not eating anything, hunger and despair finally forced her to do what she vowed she would never do: actually eating the crows.
After Truman Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election although many media predictions about Dewey's victory, the Washington Post telegraphed the winner:
You Are Invited To The "Crowquet Banquet" For This Newspaper Proposing Newspaper Author, Political Reporter And Editor, Including Our Own, Along With Pollsters, Radio Commentators And Columns... Main Course Will Consist Of Tough Breasts Long Crow En Glace. (You Will Eat Turkey.)
On November 7, 2000, the election night of the 2000 presidential elections, after the vote closed, CNN estimates Al Gore will win Florida and the presidency. Later, CNN withdrew the call and put Florida back in a column that was too close to call before finally giving Florida to George Bush. One anchor, Greenfield, equates CNN's mistake by eating crows.
See also
- Humble pie
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