MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «EAT ONE'S WORDS»
eat one's words
words
idioms
phrases
have
take
back
statements
confess
that
predictions
were
wrong
shouldn
make
your
idiom
meanings
examples
understand
example
sentences
idiomeanings
verb
admit
something
said
past
canada
biggest
country
world
ones
shit
swallow
pride
tuck
tail
roget
century
third
edition
copyright
philip
lief
group
chinese
more
translations
information
from
answers
forced
retract
incumbent
easily
meaning
what
made
including
children
intermediate
wordsmyth
collins
always
official
comprehensive
authoritative
rely
date
with
insights
into
language
trends
recant
linguistics
eating
drinking
extensions
based
sensation
destruction
sometimes
find
metaphorical
uses
verbs
which
build
upon
both
agent
oriented
patient
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The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking
Extensions based on sensation and destruction .1 Eat one's words Sometimes,
we find metaphorical uses of eating/drinking verbs which build upon both agent-
oriented and patient-oriented aspects of eating/drinking. To illustrate this ...
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... Eat one's salt: Be one's guest * I had the privilege of eating that gentleman's
salt with whom I stayed for a couple of days Eat one's terms: To study for the bar *
After having eaten one's terms, one is called to the bar Eat one's words: To retract
; ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
To eat one's words. To retract in a humiliating manner ; to unsay what you have
said ; to eat your own lick, swallow your own spittle. The phrase is Biblical in
origin. See Jer. xv, 18. To eat well. To have a good appetite. But " It eats well "
means ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
Eat one's words Withdraw a statement made; Admit that one was wrong He never
promised anyone anything; but whenever he did, he never had to eat his words.
Eat out of one's hand Tame enough to obey implicitly The tiger was trained to ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
He was one of the temperament that, in idleness, eats his heart out. □ 'Don 't let
her eat her heart out like this! ' □ Since he left, she 's been sitting at home eating
her heart out. eat one's words i marr mbrapsht fjalet □ My brother said that I ...
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Dictionary Skills 4-6 (eBook)
The expression "to eat one's words" does not mean that someone will actually eat
words. It does mean that a person will admit that what he or she said was wrong.
Idioms and their meanings are explained in the dictionary. When you look for ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Early 18005] Also see EAT ONE'S WORDS. eat high off the hog 3 See HIGH
OEE THE HOG. eat in Have a meal at home, as in Are we eating in tonight? [
Colloquial; second half of 19005] Also see EAT OUT, def. 1. eat like a bird Eat
very little, ...
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American Slang: Cultural Language Guide to Living in the USA
Eat one's words: to retract what one said; apologize for saying something that isn'
t true. He had to eat his words regarding his negative comments about the team.
Eat out of one's hand:have one at your mercy; have one do what you say.
Joseph Melillo, Edward M. Melillo, 2004
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Cheater's Guide to Speaking English Like a Native
Boye Lafayette De Mente. b. You like to see me eat crow, don't you! c. The
president had to eat crow over his promise not to raise taxes. Eat one's words
The image portrayed by this expression is very clear. It refers to having to admit
that ...
Boye Lafayette De Mente, 2007
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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of ...
And this is the point where some further investigation into the history of the
expression “To eat one's words” is called for. In particular, the first examples
listed by the ODEP are quite revealing. One of them, which is also listed by the
OED as the ...
Marion Gymnich, Norbert Lennartz, 2010
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