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It means that you retract something you said earlier because it turns out that you were mistaken. For example, if I tell my friend David that he will never pass the physics final, but he ends up doing so, I'd be in a position of having to "eat my words," or admit that I was wrong.

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The idiom "eat your words" means to have to take back something you said because it was proven wrong or you changed your opinion. It emphasizes a sense of embarrassment or humility for being incorrect.

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