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The Desert Rat Scrap Book (or DRSB) was a (roughly) quarterly, southwestern humor publication based in Thousand Palms, California. DRSB was published in editions of 10, ...
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Top Q&A for:Idioms Eat Crow What is a sentence using the idiom eat crow? The man promised to take his wife out for their anniversary, but he forgot it, so she made him eat crow
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Top Q&A for:Origin of Expression Eat Crow How Did the Expression “Eat Crow” Originate and What Does the Phrase Mean? The expression “to eat crow” came from an incident during the War of 1812 when the Americans invaded Canada. A hungry
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Top Q&A for:Origin of Phrase Eat Crow What is the origin of the phrase to "eat crow"? To eat crow - acknowledge... and folklore from the late 19th c... http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6293?ref=W_Ask&u..... Where did the phrase Eat Crow or They
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Also, eat dirt or humble pie. Be forced to admit a humiliating mistake, as in When the reporter got the facts all wrong, his editor made him eat crow. The first term's ...
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In addition to the idiom beginning with dirt, also see dig up (dirt); dish the dirt; eat crow (dirt); hit the deck (dirt); pay dirt; treat like dirt. Also see under dirty.
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Jul 25, 1996 ... The phrase to eat dirt, first attested in the 1850s, expresses the same idea as to eat crow and to eat humble pie. The oldest of them, and most ...
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Synonyms: blench, cower, crawl, crouch, dodge, draw back, duck, eat dirt, ... court , cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, eat crow, eat dirt, eat humble pie, fall all ...
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