CRY ROAST MEATVERB
to announce to others a piece of private luck or good fortune; to boast about one's situation ...1638 now rare or obs. ETYMOLOGY from the assumed prosperity of those who eat roast meat FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1638 - See Example below EXAMPLE "...at length the home-bred Chyna cryes roast-meat but th'other day sending his silly Ambassador..." From: Some Yeares Travels into Africa & Asia the Great By: Sir Thomas Herbert, second edition, 1638 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888 • Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823 • Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902 • Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, James Main Dixon, 1891
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