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Yes, I know these are not crows, but I have been dying to use this photo!
Taken by Kimberly Burnette-Dean 10/28/14 | |
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Have you ever heard the saying,
"I've got a crow to pick with you?" My dad used it all of the time and I also have heard many other people use it too. He used to say that to me if I had forgotten to do something or did something wrong. For example, I would come into the room and he would say "I've got a crow to pick with you!" Then he might follow that up with I forgot to pick him up some Pepsi the last time I went to the grocery store. Basically, he was saying that he had a complaint against me. If you have ever heard someone say "I've got a bone to pick with you", it means the same thing.
I finally found this in
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898), page 254): on the
Internet Archive.
"I must pluck a crow with you; I have a crow to pick with you.
I am
displeased with you, and must call you to account.
I have a small
complaint to make against you.
In Howell’s proverbs (1659) we find the
following,
“I have a goose to pluck with you,” used in the same sense." (p. 254)
Have you ever heard or used this saying?
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