eat crow
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- (XIXe siècle) Apparu dans les années 1870 aux États-Unis sour la forme eat boiled crow. D’origine inconnue - mais probablement parce que la viande du corbeau est peu appétissante.
- Composé de eat et de crow.
Locution verbale modifier
| Temps | Forme |
|---|---|
| Infinitif | to eat crow \Prononciation ?\ |
| Présent simple, 3e pers. sing. |
eats crow |
| Prétérit | ate crow |
| Participe passé | eaten crow |
| Participe présent | eating crow |
| voir conjugaison anglaise | |
eat crow \Prononciation ?\
- (États-Unis) Accepter une défaite humiliante.
- He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself. — (Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 2, 1901)
- The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run. — ("Baseball Races", Time, 19 juillet 1937)
- In political libel, furthermore, a public recanting by the vilifier is more likely to be believed by the public, for it is well known that no politician likes to "eat crow" unless he has to. — (J.C.N.P. "Libel Actions by Political Organizations," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 98, no. 6, page 883, 1950)
Prononciation modifier
- (Australie) : écouter « eat crow [Prononciation ?] »
Références modifier
- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : eat crow. (liste des auteurs et autrices)