subs. phr. (old).—See quot. 1847.
1599. NASHE, Lenten Stuffe (Harleian Miscellany, vi., 168). The gods and goddesses, all on a rowe, BREAD AND CROW, from Ops to Pomona (the first apple-wife), were so dumpt with this miserable wracke that they beganne to abhorre all moysture for the sea’s sake.
1881. DAVIES, A Supplementary English Glossary, s.v. BREAD AND CROW seems to be used proverbially for ‘every one.’ Perhaps there is some allusion to Æsop’s fable, as though the fox ate not only the crow’s bread, but the crow herself.
