crow over

Frequency: 4.82.2 per million words

To exult over a victory or someone's misfortune.

crowcrow + PREPOSITION

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Examples (10)

  • It's unsportsmanlike to crow over a defeated opponent.
  • She won the argument, but she was graceful enough not to crow over it.
  • He couldn't resist crowing over his rival's business failure.
  • The winning team was crowing over their victory in the locker room.
  • I warned him not to crow over his promotion too much, as it might alienate his colleagues.
  • There's no need to crow over my mistake; I already feel bad enough.
  • If they win, they will undoubtedly crow over us for weeks.
  • He spent the entire evening crowing over the single point he scored against the champion.
  • Why do you always have to crow over every little success?
  • Having finally fixed the bug, the programmer started to crow over his breakthrough.