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
Tzefanyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Barak (2)	-	Arabic
ZİYaeddİN	-	Turkish
Reuven	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Min-Jun	meen-joon	Korean
Naveed	-	Persian, Arabic