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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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Trump likes to crow over his crowd sizes.

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“It’s not our fault that the reindeer preferred Team Crow over Team Gallagher. Obviously, we welcomed the poor reindeer to Team Crow, as any hospitable office would,†Crow said.

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Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin vowed to get information from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow over his gifts and relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas after a law firm representing Mr. Crow rejected the committee’s inquiries about his businesses.

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who repeated the dubious argument that it would constitute a violation of separation of powers for Congress to implement a binding ethics code for the Supreme Court at the hearing, has gotten $294,800 from Crow over the last two decades via his affiliated PACs and fundraising committees.

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ProPublica reported on April 6 that Thomas accepted expensive trips from Republican donor and real estate magnate Harlan Crow over decades without disclosing them.

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