to eat crow
01
to admit to being wrong, usually in a humiliating or embarrassing way, and to suffer the consequences of one's mistake
Dialect
American
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例
After insisting that he was right, John had to eat crow when the evidence proved him wrong.
The author had to eat crow and rewrite their manuscript after receiving harsh criticism from their editor.
