What the H does "Eat Crow" mean?

frankcal20 · Post by **frankcal20** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:24 pm

What the H does "Eat Crow" mean? Did I miss that. Was it something that you guys made up in another forum and I forgot to read it. For all us lame O's fill us in.

HEROHAMO · Post by **HEROHAMO** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:28 pm

Eat crow is when you make a prediction and then your wrong.

Skinsfan55 · Post by **Skinsfan55** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:00 pm

No, that's not exactly right... it's just another way of saying eat your words.

If you have to eat your words, you have to eat crow.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:25 pm

When you have made a serious error and need to acknowledge it humbly, it is highly probable that the expression you use to describe the process has something to do with food.
The best-known traditional expression of this type in the US is to eat crow. The origin seems fairly obvious: the meat of the crow, being a carnivore, is presumably rank and extremely distasteful, and the experience is easily equated to the mental anguish of being forced to admit one’s fallibility.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/eatcrow.htm

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:34 pm

eat crow

To suffer a humiliating experience: “The organizers had to eat crow when the fair they had sworn would attract thousands drew scarcely a hundred people.” The phrase probably refers to the fact that crow meat tastes terrible.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy