eat crow
(Slang) "eat shit", suffer; be compelled to accept a humiliating defeat
To eat boiled crow
To eat boiled crow is an English idiom which means to be humiliated by being proven wrong after having taken a strong position. In
North America, the expression is simply to eat crow.
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eat crow
admit you were wrong, take back what you said (see take it back) When I lost the bet, I had to eat crow - admit I was wrong.
eat crow
Synonyms and related words:
abjure, back down, back out, backwater, climb down, crawfish out, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat dirt, eat humble pie, forswear, kiss the rod, lick the dust, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, sing small, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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