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eat crow 1. . Fig. to display total humility, especially when shown to be wrong. Well, it looks like I was wrong, and I'm going to have to eat crow. I'll be eating crow if I'm not shown to be right. 2. Fig. to be shamed; to admit that one was wrong. When it became clear that they had arrested the wrong person, the police had to eat crow. Mary talked to Joe as if he was an uneducated idiot, till she found out he was a college professor. That made her eat crow. eat crow to publicly admit you were wrong about something Charles had to eat crow and tell them they were right all along. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A follow-up press release from the committee touted high fish levels in the mid-Atlantic, under the headline "Pew Continues to Eat Crow, Should Try Flounder. If the benchmarks are attained, Hahn's critics (ourselves included) will happily eat crow in a safer, better Los Angeles. New evidence may make Feduccia and fellow ornithologists eat crow. |
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