stand corrected



stand corrected

to admit that one has been wrong. I realize that I accused him wrongly. I stand corrected. We appreciate now that our conclusions were wrong. We stand corrected.
See also: correct, stand

stand corrected

Agree that one was wrong, as in I stand corrected-we did go to Finland in 1985. This idiom was first recorded in John Dryden's The Maiden Queen (1668): "I stand corrected, and myself reprove."
See also: correct, stand

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
DarianDER-ee-ən, DAR-ee-ənEnglish
Ahtisaari[ahtisari:]
Benedetto-Italian
Alastair-Scottish
Jehudi-Biblical
Sofiezo-FEE (German), so-FEE-e (Danish), so-FEE (Dutch)German, Danish, Dutch, Czech