| Idiom | Eat Your Words |
|---|---|
| Example | He predicted that I'd fail biology, but I got a D. Now he'll have to eat his words. |
| Meaning | to have to take back what you said; to admit humbly that you were wrong |
| Origin | Words come out of your mouth. Food goes in to be eaten. If you've said something that turns out to be not true, maybe you wish you could take back those wrong words, put them back into your mouth, and eat them. A similar expression is "eat crow" (see page 54), but "eat your words" makes more sense. |
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