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Noun Concept
Categories: American English idioms, English-language idioms, Metaphors referring to food and drink, Metaphors referring to birds, Error
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eating crow  Crow pie  croweaters  Eat Crow  eat your hat
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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Wikipedia
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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Wikipedia
English-language idiom for humiliatingly admitting being proven wrong Wikidata
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idiom
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chagrin
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English
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eating crow
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eating crow
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Crow pie, croweaters, Eat Crow, eat your hat, Eat your words, To eat boiled crow, To eat crow

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