Let us consider the idiom.

Example of the idiom eat your words. John was wrong about the election and had to eat his words. If somebody has to eat their words they are admitting that their earlier prediction was wrong often in a humiliating way. I didnt think that you could do it.

Whats the difference between practical and pragmatic. Youd be lost without them. An idiom is an expression or phrase whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.

In other words Idioms mean something different than the individual words Students often confuse idioms with proverbs. Eat your words idiom. My teacher told me that I would fail all of my final tests.

The president was forced to eat his words after it was shown that. Bite the hand that feeds you - To hurt or offend someone who helps you. For example a picture is worth a thousand words is a proverb a general truth.

Bite off more than you can chew - Try to do more than you can handle. I said hed never win but I had to eat my words. He will have to eat his words.

As you can see there are a lot of idioms that pertain to food in english we do. To admit that a statement you made before is wrong often publicly to take back what was said Example. Eat sleep and breathe sth idiom.