swallow one's words

Take back what one said, as in If they win I'll have to swallow my words. George Farquhar used this idiom in The Inconstant (1702): "I have swallowed my words already; I have eaten them up." For a synonym, see eat one's words.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Elek	-	Hungarian
Hallvar&Eth;R	-	Ancient Scandinavian
ClÍOna	-	Irish
Nuh	-	Arabic, Turkish
Terry	['teri]
Kishan	-	Indian, Hindi, Gujarati