eat crow

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eat crow 的定义

  1. To suffer a humiliating experience: “The organizers had to eat crow when the fair they had sworn would attract thousands drew scarcely a hundred people.” The phrase probably refers to the fact that crow meat tastes terrible.

eat crow 近义词

v. 动词 verb

humble oneself

更多eat crow例句

  1. Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.
  2. Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.
  3. Tribole tells her patients not to change what they eat but how.
  4. Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.
  5. I try to eat less processed food, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nothing over-processed.
  6. Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
  7. You see Squinty, like most little pigs, thought more of something to eat than of anything else.
  8. Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
  9. I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
  10. Many of his bird neighbors,p. 31 for instance, liked the same things to eat that he did.