crow about
to talk in a proud and (sometimes) annoying way about something you have done
TRANSLATION
crow about = prahlen, angeben --- GOOGLE INDEX crow about: approximately 600,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
T-Mobile has a lot to CROW ABOUT after a highly successful 2013 that saw the wireless carrier add 4.4 million customers in the U.S.
(Forbes Magazine)
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Rwanda's ruling party has plenty to CROW ABOUT; developmental progress since 1994 has been stunning, with economic growth on track to hit at least 7 percent this year.
(International Business Times)
(Forbes Magazine)
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Rwanda's ruling party has plenty to CROW ABOUT; developmental progress since 1994 has been stunning, with economic growth on track to hit at least 7 percent this year.
(International Business Times)
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crow about
phrasal verb
- to talk in a proud and (sometimes) annoying way about something you have done
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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The verb crow (from the Old English crawian), which is generally used with the preposition "about," stems from the noun "crow," a widely distributed genus of birds (Corvus, in the family Corvidae).
The song of a crow is rather loud and annoying. In the same way, a person who talks arrogantly about themselves or about some success is said to be "crowing about it," or sometimes "crowing over it," although this is less common.
The word crow is used in a few other popular expressions that can be useful:
- eat crow = to admit that you were wrong (After telling everyone that his country would win the World Cup, he had to eat crow). This expression likely stems from the notion that crow meat is edible, but not particularly tasty. A synonymous phrase is "eat humble pie," humble meaning "not proud or not believing that you are important."
- as the crow flies = describes a distance when measured in a straight line between two points or places (He lives about 20 miles from London as the crow flies)
And then we have the crowbar, a heavy iron bar with a bent end that is used to help lift heavy objects off the ground or to force things open. The name probably derives from the bent end, which with some imagination resembles a crow's beak.
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SYNONYMS
boast, brag, aggrandize, gloat, grandstand, exult, bluster, mouth-off
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I'm not the type of person who crows about every small achievement."
phrasal verb
- to talk in a proud and (sometimes) annoying way about something you have done
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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The verb crow (from the Old English crawian), which is generally used with the preposition "about," stems from the noun "crow," a widely distributed genus of birds (Corvus, in the family Corvidae).
The song of a crow is rather loud and annoying. In the same way, a person who talks arrogantly about themselves or about some success is said to be "crowing about it," or sometimes "crowing over it," although this is less common.
The word crow is used in a few other popular expressions that can be useful:
- eat crow = to admit that you were wrong (After telling everyone that his country would win the World Cup, he had to eat crow). This expression likely stems from the notion that crow meat is edible, but not particularly tasty. A synonymous phrase is "eat humble pie," humble meaning "not proud or not believing that you are important."
- as the crow flies = describes a distance when measured in a straight line between two points or places (He lives about 20 miles from London as the crow flies)
And then we have the crowbar, a heavy iron bar with a bent end that is used to help lift heavy objects off the ground or to force things open. The name probably derives from the bent end, which with some imagination resembles a crow's beak.
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SYNONYMS
boast, brag, aggrandize, gloat, grandstand, exult, bluster, mouth-off
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I'm not the type of person who crows about every small achievement."
