hoarse as a crow

English

Adjective

hoarse as a crow (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Very hoarse.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      I went upstairs and downstairs, inside and out — shouted myself hoarse as a crow — nothing was to be seen of Marjorie, — or heard; […]
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.