have a crow to pull

English

Alternative forms

• have a crow to pluck
• have a crow to pick

Verb

have a crow to pull (third-person singular simple present has a crow to pull, present participle having a crow to pull, simple past and past participle had a crow to pull)

1. (obsolete) To have a point of contention (with someone); to have a bone to pick.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.27:

     Philip, the King of Macedon, who had so many crowes to pul with the Romanes, […] resolved at last to seize upon al their children whom he had caused to be murthered, that so he might day by day one after another rid thw world of them, and so establish his safety.