单词 | to have a crow to pluck or pull with any one |
释义 | > as lemmasto have a crow to pluck or pull (rarely pick) with any one b. to have a crow to pluck or pull (rarely pick) with any one: to have something disagreeable or awkward to settle with him; to have a matter of dispute, or something requiring explanation, to clear up; to have some fault to find with him. Formerly also, to pluck or pull a crow with one or together. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > have something to quarrel about to have a crow to pluck or pull (rarely pick) with any onea1500 to have a matter with (also against)1530 to pluck or pull a crow with one or togethera1616 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 20 Na, na, abide! We haue a craw to pull. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxviii A wrathfull woman..He that hir weddyth hath a crowe to pull. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 84 If a crow help vs in sirra, wee'll plucke a crow together. View more context for this quotation 1662 S. Pepys Diary 18 Nov. (1970) III. 261 He and I very kind, but I every day expect to pull a crow with him about our lodgings. 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 159 We have a Crow to pluck with these Fellows, before we part. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 385/1 If there be ‘a crow to pluck’ between us and any contemporary, we shall make a clean breast of it at once. 1865 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 179/1 To say nothing of all the crows which he finds to pick with his author on his own account. < as lemmas |
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