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Cry Vinegar (To)

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In French, Crier Vinaigre. The shout of sportsmen when a hare is caught. He cries “Vinegar!” he has caught the hare; metaphorically it means, he has won success. “Cʹétoit, dit le Duchat, la coutume en Languedoc, entre les chasseurs, de sʹécrier lʹun à lʹautre ‘Vinaigre,ʹ dès quʹils avaient tiré un lièvre, parceque la vraie sauce de cet animal est le vinaigre.”

Crier au Vinaigre has quite another meaning. It is the reproof to a landlord who serves his customers with bad wine. In a figurative sense it means Crier au Voleur.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cry
Cry of Animals (The)
Cry (To)
Cry Cavē (To)
Cry Havock!
Cry Quits
Cry Vinegar (To)
Cry Wolf
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