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eat crow
verb as in humble oneself
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Example Sentences
I was a union man and went on strike and fought scabs and made the bosses eat crow.
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Some people dont like to eat crow, but its been found theyre not so very bad, after all.
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He had said that Ticktock must go when fall came, and he hated to eat crow.
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Hicks consented to eat crow only after Mr. Ware had cursed and cajoled him into a better and more forgiving frame of mind.
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But this son of a thousand earls, or of something else, wouldn't eat owl when owl was served, though he would eat crow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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