eat crow

I was a union man and went on strike and fought scabs and made the bosses eat crow.

Some people dont like to eat crow, but its been found theyre not so very bad, after all.

He had said that Ticktock must go when fall came, and he hated to eat crow.

Hicks consented to eat crow only after Mr. Ware had cursed and cajoled him into a better and more forgiving frame of mind.

But this son of a thousand earls, or of something else, wouldn't eat owl when owl was served, though he would eat crow.