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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
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∙ 15y agoThe man promised to take his wife out for their anniversary, but he forgot it, so she made him eat crow.
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