Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Humble crow

A guest on the PBS NewsHour just now: “That’s why I’m eating humble crow this afternoon.”

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[A quick look around suggests to me that this mixing of idioms is not unusual. But it’s new to me.]

comments: 1

The Crow said...

Perhaps the next mixing of metaphors along that line will be "eat humble crow pie"?