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Idioms and Phrases

Exult loudly about, especially over someone's defeat. For example, In most sports it's considered bad manners to crow over your opponent . This term alludes to the cock's loud crow. [Late 1500s]
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Example Sentences

Castle eyed Scattergood venomously, found him a hard man to crow over.

He would crow over it; and if we offered a reward, maybe we would get the eggs back.

"Oh, yes, you can crow over me now," she shouted shrilly above the buzz of comment and suggestion.

Even the vindictive Cairns ceased for a time to crow over so abject an adversary in so bitter an hour.

This marks the superiority of the crow over birds it often resembles in its actions.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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