EAT ONE'S WORDS

Meaning of EAT ONE'S WORDS in English

v. phr. To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully.

Compare: EAT CROW.

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EAT ONE'S WORDS — phrasal to retract what one has said
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
EAT ONE'S WORDS — phrasal : to retract what one has said
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EAT ONE'S WORDS — take back what has been said; repent of what has been said
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
EAT ONE'S WORDS — : to retract what one has said
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EAT ONE'S WORDS — to retract what one has said
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
EAT ONE'S WORDS — retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way. → eat
Concise Oxford English vocab
EAT ONE'S WORDS — = swallow one's words
Slang English vocab
EAT ONE'S WORDS — Take back what was said, retract a statement, withdraw charges.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
EAT ONE`S WORDS — admit being wrong in something one has said, retract one`s statement He was forced to eat his words after his …
English Idioms vocab
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
EAT ONE'S WORDS — * swallow one's words брать свои слова обратно; извиняться за сказанное
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать свои слова обратно; извиняться за сказанное
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
EAT ONE'S WORDS — брать назад свои слова
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WORDS — (Verb) pamulong
English-Visayan vocabulary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EAT
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WORDS — plural of word present third singular of word
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EAT
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WORDS — n. sayings, utterances; text, libretto; speech; talk (as opposed to action); dispute, argument
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EAT
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EAT — of eat. 2. eat ·vi to make one's way slowly. 3. eat ·vi to taste or relish; as, it eats …
Webster English vocab
WORDS — ~ angry talk. → word ———————— ~ the text of a play, opera, or other performed piece. → word
Concise Oxford English vocab
EAT — [eat] vb ate ; eat.en ; eat.ing [ME eten, fr. OE etan; akin to OHG ezzan to eat, L edere, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ONE
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EAT — / iːt; NAmE / verb ( ate / et; NAmE ; especially NAmE eɪt/, eaten / ˈiːtn; NAmE /) 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EAT — eat S1 W1 /iːt/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense ate /et, eɪt $ eɪt/, past participle eaten /ˈiːtn/) [ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EAT — v. (past ate; past part. eaten) 1 a tr. take into the mouth, chew, and swallow (food). b intr. consume …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EAT — v. (past ate; past part. eaten) 1 a tr. take into the mouth, chew, and swallow (food). b intr. consume …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
EAT — v. (past ate; past part. eaten) 1. a tr. take into the mouth, chew, and swallow (food). b intr. consume …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EAT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EAT
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WORDS — [plural] [noun]We had/exchanged a few words as we were coming out of the meeting.Words sometimes means angry words.Both competitors exchanged/had …
Cambridge English vocab
EAT — Synonyms and related words : ablate, absorb, assimilate, bite, bleed white, break bread, burn up, canker, consume, corrode, count calories, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
EAT — v. Function: verb 1 to take in as food FF1C; they quickly ate a light breakfast FF1E; Synonyms: consume, devour, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
WORDS — n. pl. 1. Language, accents, tongues, talk, discourse. 2. Dispute, wrangling, bickering, altercation, logomachy, war of ~.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
EAT — verb 1. to take in as food they quickly ate a light breakfast Synonyms: consume, devour, feed (on), ingest, meal, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
EAT — verb ADVERB ▪ well ▪ We ate very well most of the time (= had lots of nice food) . …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
WORDS — See ↑ WRITE 13 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a man/woman of few words • ↑ be at a loss/be lost for …
Longman Activator English vocab
EAT — See ↑ EAT 1,2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ couldn't eat another thing • ↑ feel like something to eat/want something to …
Longman Activator English vocab
EAT — INDEX: 1. to eat 2. to have a meal 3. to eat a lot or too much 4. to eat …
Longman Activator English vocab
WORDS — n. text 1) ~ to (a song) argument, discussion 2) to have ~ with smb. 3) to weigh ('consider carefully') …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
WORDS — sword
Anagrams English vocabulary
WORDS — wordcwide
Англо-Староанглийский словарь
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
WORDS — сущ. текст Syn : text Слова amount expressed in ~ сумма, выраженная словами imperative ~ категорическое требование precatory ~ выражение …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ONE
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EAT — гл.; прош. вр. - ate, прич. прош. вр. - eaten 1) есть; поглощать, поедать to eat heartily, voraciously ≈ есть …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WORDS — Слово
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
ONE
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
EAT — eat.ogg i:t v (ate; eaten) 1. есть, поедать: питаться to eat one's dinner - обедать, пообедать where shall we eat? …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

American Idioms English vocabulary

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