eat one's words 的定义
- 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
等同于 recant
eat one's words 的近义词 36 个
- annul
- back down
- back off
- backtrack
- contradict
- disavow
- disown
- renege
- renounce
- repudiate
- rescind
- retract
- revoke
- take back
- abjure
- abnegate
- abrogate
- apostatize
- cancel
- countermand
- deny
- disclaim
- forswear
- nullify
- recall
- repeal
- unsay
- void
- welsh
- withdraw
- back out
- call back
- dial back
- go back on one's word
- weasel out
- worm out of
eat one's words 的反义词 17 个
等同于 retract
eat one's words 的近义词 46 个
- back down
- back off
- cancel
- deny
- disavow
- disown
- pull back
- recant
- renege
- renounce
- repeal
- repudiate
- rescind
- reverse
- revoke
- rule out
- take back
- withdraw
- abjure
- back
- countermand
- disclaim
- eliminate
- exclude
- forswear
- recall
- recede
- retreat
- retrograde
- sheathe
- suspend
- unsay
- welsh
- back out of
- call off
- change one's mind
- draw in
- fall back
- forget it
- go back on
- have change of heart
- nig
- pull in
- reel in
- retrocede
- take in
eat one's words 的反义词 18 个
等同于 take back
等同于 eat crow
eat one's words 的近义词 5 个
更多eat one's words例句
- In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.
- Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.
- 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.