eat one's words

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eat one's words 的定义

  1. Be forced to retract something one has said, as in The incumbent won easily, so I had to eat my words. This expression was already proverbial in John Ray's English Proverbs. [Second half of 1500s]

eat one's words 近义词

eat one's words

等同于 recant

eat one's words

等同于 retract

eat one's words

等同于 take back

eat one's words

等同于 eat crow

更多eat one's words例句

  1. In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.
  2. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  3. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  4. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  5. In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.
  10. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.