eat crow
to admit that you were wrong or that you made a mistake
TRANSLATION
eat crow = to eat crow = zu Kreuze kriechen, die bittere Pille schlucken, Kreide fressen --- GOOGLE INDEX approximately 274,000 Google hits
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EATING CROW, literally: Wendy Williams loses her bet that... Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wouldn't last more than 72 days of marriage
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eat crow
idiom
- to admit that you were wrong
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Have you ever seen crow on a restaurant menu? Probably not, and there is a good reason for that. We can't speak from personal experience, but the meat of the crow apparently has a unpleasant odour and is extremely distasteful.
Even the Bible mentions how unfit it is for eating. And because they are carrion (decaying flesh) eaters, crows have long had a nasty reputation anyway.
So what could be worse than eating crow? Admitting, very humbly, that you were wrong about something which you previously felt very strong about. Thus the idiom "eat crow" has been used since the middle of the 19th century to describe the act of humility.
Being incorrect has long been associated with eating by the way, and not only crow.
There are other expressions such as:
"eating dirt" (another unpleasant experience), "eating your hat" (not as bad as dirt or crow, but nonetheless undesirable), "eating your words" and the popular British expression "eating humble pie:"
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SYNONYMS
eat dirt, eat one's words, eat humble pie, grovel, swallow one's pride, tuck one's tail
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"The CEO had to eat crow after the discovery of millions in unpaid taxes."
idiom
- to admit that you were wrong
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Have you ever seen crow on a restaurant menu? Probably not, and there is a good reason for that. We can't speak from personal experience, but the meat of the crow apparently has a unpleasant odour and is extremely distasteful.
Even the Bible mentions how unfit it is for eating. And because they are carrion (decaying flesh) eaters, crows have long had a nasty reputation anyway.
So what could be worse than eating crow? Admitting, very humbly, that you were wrong about something which you previously felt very strong about. Thus the idiom "eat crow" has been used since the middle of the 19th century to describe the act of humility.
Being incorrect has long been associated with eating by the way, and not only crow.
There are other expressions such as:
"eating dirt" (another unpleasant experience), "eating your hat" (not as bad as dirt or crow, but nonetheless undesirable), "eating your words" and the popular British expression "eating humble pie:"
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SYNONYMS
eat dirt, eat one's words, eat humble pie, grovel, swallow one's pride, tuck one's tail
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The CEO had to eat crow after the discovery of millions in unpaid taxes."
