eat your words
eat your words
retract what you have said especially when forced to do so
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eat someone alive
(of insects) bite someone many times
exploit someone's weakness ruthlessly – informal
eat crow
be humiliated by your defeats or mistakes - North American informal
In the USA boiled crow has been a metaphor for something extremely disagreeable since the late 19th century.
eat dirt
suffer insults or humiliation – informal
In the USA eat dirt also has the sense of make a humiliating retraction or eat your words.
eat his dust
fall far behind someone in a competitive situation - North American informal
1993 - Fiddlehead - She let everybody know she was moving on to True Love and they could eat her dust.
eat your heart out
suffer from excessive longing, especially for someone or something unattainable
used to indicate that you think someone will feel great jealousy or regret about something
1997 - Christina Reid - Clowns - Wait'll you see my new frock. Joan Collins eat your heart out.
eat someone out of house and home
eat a lot of someone else's food – informal
eat humble pie
make a humble apology and accept humiliation
Humble pie is from a mid 19th-century pun based on umbles meaning offal which was considered to be an inferior food.
1998 - Spectator - A white youth behind us did shout racial abuse. But after the game was over his companions forced him to come up to Darcus to eat humble pie.
eat salt with
eat salt with be a guest of - British dated
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