craw

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What stuck in my craw was the number of unfortunate people who caught it and died painfully--or by their own hand in horror--without the sign of aid or assistance He nodded when I'd gone about half-way through my conclusions and before I got mentally violent about them Mr. Cornell, you've expressed your own doom at certain hands.

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  1. noun The crop of a bird or insect.
  2. noun The stomach of an animal.
  3. idiom stick in (one's) craw To cause one to feel abiding discontent and resentment.

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  • And that's the thing that sticks in the craw -- RTE likes to think it has the best football pundits in the business. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • What sticks in the craw is dropping two points thanks to a mistake, from a winnable position. —  Chelsea Blog
  • But this one kind of stuck in my craw, a little, because I find it symptomatic of the craziness that drives the superhero comics industry. —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • At any rate, the thing that sticks in my craw is that there is absolutely no pretense that the movie will be objectively enjoyable. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The second issue is the one that really sticks in my craw, and it is the insulting and vain assumption that most of us are unable to recognize the bias or slant in newspaper reporting and digest the news on our own. —  The Moderate Voice
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  1. Middle English crawe.

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  1. from Middle English crawe (not in Anglo-Saxon, where crop was used: see crop), prob. from Swedish kräfva, dial. kræ, = Danish kro, the craw, akin to Swedish krage = Danish krave, collar, = Dutch kraag, the neck, collar: see crag.
 

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