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Have you heard any of these two expressions? | Idiom: Grass is always greener
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Eat your words? #1 (permalink) Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:17 am   Eat your words?
 

What does this idiom mean: to eat one's words?
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Meaning of 'eat one's words' #2 (permalink) Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:12 am   Meaning of 'eat one's words'
 

If you eat your words, you admit that you were wrong.

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To eat humble pie #3 (permalink) Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:27 am   To eat humble pie
 

There is also the idiom to eat humble pie...
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