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crow over
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]Example Sentences
Trump likes to crow over his crowd sizes.
“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.
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.
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.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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