| 单词 | eat one's words |
| 释义 | eat one's wordsSEE SYNONYMS FOR eat one's words ON THESAURUS.COM Be forced to retract something one has said, as in The incumbent won easily, so I had to eat my words. This expression was already proverbial in John Ray's English Proverbs (1670). [Second half of 1500s] Words nearby eat one's wordsEaton, Eaton agent, eat one's cake and have it, too, eat one's hat, eat one's heart out, eat one's words, Eaton-Lambert syndrome, Eatontown, eat out, eat out of someone's hand, eats The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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