Idioms

acknowledge the corn

acknowledge the corn

To admit to or acknowledge one's fault, shortcoming, mistake, crime, or naiveté. When they arrested me, I decided I might as well acknowledge the corn and confess to stealing the car. Especially since I was still driving it. Come on, you'll get a lesser punishment if you just acknowledge the corn. Fine, I'll acknowledge the corn—I was a fool to trust him with my money.

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"If anything ailed me, I'd willingly acknowledge the corn."

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I acknowledge the corn, and that's just my way of boiling the matter down and summing it up.

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ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN Admit to being drunk, or to admit to any mistake or fault.

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Long shaggy-dog stories have been concocted to explain the origin of acknowledge the corn. The most widely quoted appeared in the Pittsburgh Commercial Advertiser sometime before 1850, describing how a young man from the Louisiana countryside (a corn-cracker) arrived in New Orleans and was suckered into a big-city betting game.

Those who acknowledge the corn in newspaper reports often admit as much in so many words, as in this quote from the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times: "Your honor, I confess the corn.

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