英语词汇“to eat dirt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to eat dirt: to submit to degrading treatment; also (U.S.) humiliating confession or retractation. Proverb. ‘Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies’: see peck n.¹ 2b.

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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)]

to light lowc1225

to lie lowa1275

to carry (also bear) coalsa1529

to eat the (or one's) leek1600

to lose caste1828

to eat dirt1857

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. v. 200 You have wonderfully changed your tone. Who was to eat any amount of dirt, if he could but save his influence thereby?

1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home ix. 116 Lord Fitzurse..made up for the dirt which they had been eating by the splendour of his entertainment.

1885 Mag. Amer. Hist. 13 199/2 ‘To eat dirt’ is to retract or ‘eat humble pie’.

1890 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 462/2 In times of revolution a good many pecks of dirt have to be eaten.

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang To eat dirt,..to retract.

1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. Eat dirt, to retract, to be penitent, the Yankee equiv. of ‘to eat one's words.’.

单词	to eat dirt
释义	> as lemmas to eat dirt c. to eat dirt: to submit to degrading treatment; also (U.S.) humiliating confession or retractation. Proverb. ‘Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies’: see peck n.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] to light lowc1225 to lie lowa1275 to carry (also bear) coalsa1529 to eat the (or one's) leek1600 to lose caste1828 to eat dirt1857 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. v. 200 You have wonderfully changed your tone. Who was to eat any amount of dirt, if he could but save his influence thereby? 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home ix. 116 Lord Fitzurse..made up for the dirt which they had been eating by the splendour of his entertainment. 1885 Mag. Amer. Hist. 13 199/2 ‘To eat dirt’ is to retract or ‘eat humble pie’. 1890 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 462/2 In times of revolution a good many pecks of dirt have to be eaten. 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang To eat dirt,..to retract. 1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. Eat dirt, to retract, to be penitent, the Yankee equiv. of ‘to eat one's words.’. extracted from dirtn. < as lemmas
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