It means bragging or touting your own acomplishments, real or imagined. Like the rooster crows, maybe because he thinks he's King of the barnyard,or maybe he thinks HE made the sun come up.
The phrase "as the crow flies" is roughly defined as meaning "in a straight line" or, put another way, without having to account for irregular terrain or a winding path. In that case, there are 5,280 feet in a mile "as the crow flies" because the crow can fly directly from point A to point B.
If he was right about it being a crow and not a rook he would crow "I told you so," in triumph.
The meaning of the name Crawford is From The Crow Ford
A clever crow will not show off.
Jim Crow is most famous for his "Jim Crow Laws," which said that certain facilities in the South were to be racially segregated, coining the phrase, "separate but equal."
It is a a straight line distance that does not follow a road.
It just means really messy I guess.
The phrase "Jim Crow Law" first appeared in 1904 according to the Dictionary of American English, although there is some evidence of earlier usage. The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow", a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface, which first surfaced in 1832 and was used to satirize Andrew Jackson's populist policies. As a result of Rice's fame, "Jim Crow" had become a pejorative expression meaning "Negro" by 1838 and when the laws of racial segregation - directed against blacks - were enacted at the end of the 19th century they became known as Jim Crow laws.
The English meaning for the Kikuyu word igogo is crow.
the meaning of the phrase myriad manifestation is-countless evidence
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one meant to get a drink in a saloon and leave without paying for it. The crow reference likely points to Old Crow, a brand of whiskey.
Il corvo is an Italian equivalent of the English phrase "the crow."Specifically, the masculine singular definite article ilmeans "the." The masculine noun corvo means "crow." The pronunciation is "eel KOHR-voh."