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
Vibol	-	Khmer
Tero	TE-ro	Finnish
Theodoros	-	Greek, Ancient Greek
ErvĪNs	-	Latvian
Hephaestus	hi-FES-təs (English), hi-FEES-təs (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Farquhar	-	Irish, Scottish