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Eat your words Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
regret what you said, admit you were wrong He told me the answer, and I had to eat my words. I was wrong.
regret what you said, admit you were wrong
He told me the answer, and I had to eat my words. I was wrong.
He told me the answer, and I had to eat my words. I was wrong.
Eat your words Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Eating crow is a U.S. colloquial idiom, meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position. Eating crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proved wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. The exact origin of the idiom is unknown, but it probably began with an American story published around 1850 about a slow-witted New York farmer. Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proved incorrect, such as to "eat dirt", to "eat your words", and to "eat your hat" (or shoe).
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