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swallow one's words
swallow one's words
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
.
See also:
swallow
,
word
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Stephanie
STEF-ə-nee
(English)
, SHTE-fah-nee
(German)
English, German
Aku
AH-koo
Finnish
Torgils
-
Norwegian
U-Jin
oo-jeen
Korean
Parminder
-
Indian (Sikh)
Theo
[θi:əu]
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