you "eat crow" when you have to take back something you once said.
For Example:
"the captain of the other team bragged that he would crush us. After we beat them, he was forced to eat crow."
Eating crow (archaically, eating boiled crow) is an English-language idiom meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position
To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error
The man promised to take his wife out for their anniversary, but he forgot it, so she made him eat crow.
"Eat, drink, and be merry" IS a sentence.
On a nice day I eat yogurt on my front porch.
To eat dirt simply means to endure or accept insults or bad treatment.
Now that I've done exactly what you said I'd never be able to do I hope you are ready to eat your words.
Eat your hat: a statement made when you are positive that something will happen, as in "I'll eat my hat if our team loses this game."
"Eat, drink, and be merry" IS a sentence.
Let's meet at a restaurant and get a bite to eat.
This idiom means to be forced to "eat your words," or to retract a statement you made in error. You would use it especially when you bragged about something that then did not occur, as in "I had to eat crow when I told Tom that my team would beat his. We lost by 5 points!"
Cats can eat a crow.
That's not an idiom. It means just what it looks like -- something is fit for you to eat.
Eat your macaroons.
me
A crow could possibly eat a baby ferret
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if you eat to much candy you get a cavity
I am craving chocolate to eat.
No a cougar can not eat a crow if it is on the ground because, it might hear the cougar moving and fly away, unless it is dead than yes it can eat a crow.