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eat your words
USUK
to have to admit that something you said was wrong
Often 'make someone eat their words' or 'have to eat your words'. Compare 'eat humble pie', which is about apologising.
In context
He said I'd never pass the driving test, but I made him eat his words.
Critics who laughed at the film had to eat their words when it won an award.
More idioms about food
- a bad appleone bad person who has a bad effect on the rest of a group
- a couch potatoa person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching TV instead of being active
- a different kettle of fisha completely different situation from the one just mentioned
- a finger in every pieinvolved in many different activities, often to get power
- a meal ticketa person or thing that someone uses as a source of money or support