eat one's words

Be forced to retract something one has said, as in The incumbent won easily, so I had to eat my words. This expression was already proverbial in John Ray's English Proverbs (1670). [Second half of 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Fuat	-	Turkish
Gerold	GE-rawlt (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Aquilina	-	Ancient Roman
Aadolf	AH:-dolf	Finnish
Steinar	-	Norwegian
Grigor	-	Welsh, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Armenian