They had to eat crow when they saw the number of the actual books sold.
当他们看到书的实际销售数字时，只好羞愧地收回原话了。
| 单词 | To eat crow |
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To eat crow
原声例句
英语单词畅谈美国文化 They had to eat crow when they saw the number of the actual books sold. 当他们看到书的实际销售数字时，只好羞愧地收回原话了。 少年谢尔顿 第五季 That Dr. Sturgis was correct and I need to eat crow and go back to him? 斯特吉斯博士说得对，我只能吃瘪然后去找他吗？ 2013 English Cafe You have to " eat humble pie." There's another expression like this, which is " to eat crow" (crow). 你要“吃不起眼的馅饼” 。 还有一个表达方式是这样的，就是“吃乌鸦” （crow）。 2013 English Cafe " He was crowing about his victory on the golf course." But " to eat crow" means, in some ways, the opposite – to say that you were wrong, to have to admit that you were wrong. “他在为自己在高尔夫球场上的胜利而欢呼雀跃。 ” 但是“吃乌鸦”在某些方面意味着相反——说你错了，不得不承认你错了。
英语百科
Eating crow（重定向自To eat crow）
Eating crow is an American colloquial idiom, meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. The exact origin of the idiom is unknown, but it probably began with an American story published around 1850 about a slow-witted New York farmer. Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to "eat dirt" and to "eat your hat" (or shoe), all probably originating from "to eat one's words", which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts, on Psalm 62: “God eateth not his words when he hath once spoken”. |
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