单词 | eat crow |
释义 | eat crow [mainly US] to admit that you have been wrong and apologize, especially in a situation where this makes you feel ashamed. The usual British expression is to eat humble pie. But by the end of the year, Safire showed he was willing to eat crow. His first judgments of Watergate, he wrote, had been `really wrong'. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
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