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eat crow

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eat crow
to publicly admit you were wrong about something. Charles had to eat crow and tell them they were right all along.
See also: crow, eat


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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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