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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ate crow" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where someone has to admit they were wrong or accept humiliation after making a mistake.
Example: "After confidently predicting the team's victory, he had to eat crow when they lost the game."
Alternatives: "swallow my pride" or "admit my mistake".
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ate crow
verb
Simple past tense of eat crow
Exact(6)
I ate crow like it was my favorite Chinese food".
Johann Hari ate crow, and then delivered a pretty incredible defense of the right to offend.
From the back porch of Gracie Mansion, John V. Lindsay looked into the camera and ate crow: "I guessed wrong on the weather before the city's biggest snowstorm last winter.
Trying to be game, but looking a bit awkward, the former newsmagazine cover boy ate crow on David Letterman, finishing up a Top 10 list of "Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around" with "Oh, I don't know -- maybe fewer crazy, red-faced rants".
Siemens, which is no longer the shirt sponsor of Real Madrid C.F., did a mea culpa yesterday and ate crow over the fact that Wi-Fi-only phones have been a complete and utter failure.
And you've seen our heart tonight". Saw heart, and ate crow.
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"It was a dumb statement, it really was," said Gee, who vowed to eat crow at Antoine's, a restaurant in New Orleans.
Find out tonight if he'll have to eat crow, or at least his favourite Tottenham Hotspur bobblecap.
I'm eating crow now, but I'm still a stereotyper (as all trendspotters are at times), so I've got a new one.
Now I eat crow.
"Hopefully, we'll be eating crow".
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