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eat your words
idiom
to admit that something you said before was wrong: 承认自己说错了话
Sam said it would never sell, but when he sees these sales figures he'll have to eat his words.萨姆曾说这个永远不会有销路。可他要是看到这些销售数字，就得承认自己错了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
confess
hand
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessed
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back
eat your words | American Dictionary
eat your words
idiom
to be forced to admit that you were wrong about something:
I said he’d never win, but I had to eat my words.
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