crawl back (to sb)
to admit that you were wrong and ask someone to forgive you or ask them for something that you were offered and refused in the past:
Don't come crawling back to me when she throws you out!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- if you'll pardon the expression idiom
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- reconciliation
- repentant
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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