to
eat crow to
display total humility, especially when shown to be wrong; to be
shamed; to admit that one was wrong; to
publicly admit you were wrong about something:
- Well, it looks like I was wrong, and I'm going to have to eat crow.
- When it became clear that they had arrested the wrong person, the police had to eat crow.
- Mary talked to Joe as if he was an uneducated idiot, till she found out he was a college professor. That made her eat crow.
Eating crow is an American
colloquial idiom, meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or
having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Crow is
presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proven wrong might
be emotionally hard to swallow.
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