crow over

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

As Llano struggled, The Times, in splashy headlines, missed no opportunity, and made a few of them too, to crow over every crisis that beset Llano: “Oligarchy of Misrule”; “Perquisites of Czar.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2021

“It’s heartbreaking. I’ve ate a lot of crow over this one.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020

Mr. Scaramucci, who also has a weekly podcast with wife Deirdre called “Mooch and the Mrs.,” acknowledges that he has “eaten crow over the last two or three years.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2019

Technology allowed, or emboldened, Mays to crow over his fell deeds, but it also trapped him.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2019

It was her custom to read your letters aloud to us and crow over them, thinking it a feather in her cap to be writing to royalty, such as yourself.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine