eat crow

eat crow
eat crow
1. Fig. to display total humility, especially when shown to be wrong. •

Well, it looks like I was wrong, and I'm going to have to eat crow.

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I'll be eating crow if I'm not shown to be right.

2. Fig. to be shamed; to admit that one was wrong. •

When it became clear that they had arrested the wrong person, the police had to eat crow.

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Mary talked to Joe as if he was an uneducated idiot, till she found out he was a college professor. That made her eat crow.

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{v. phr.} To admit you are mistaken or defeated; take back a mistaken statement. * /John had boasted that he would play on the first team; but when the coach did not choose him, he had to eat crow./ * /Fred said he could beat the new man in boxing, but he lost and had to eat crow./ Compare: BACK DOWN, EAT HUMBLE PIE, EAT ONE'S WORDS.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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