Question

Identify the meaning of the given phrase/idiom.
     Eat one's words
a) Admit what you said was wrong
b) Admit what you did is a big mistake
c) Admit that you are hungry
d) Admit to not having done anything wrong

Answer 1

Hint: Idioms have most of the time, metaphorical language, so what is written is mostly not meant literally, instead, it has a totally different meaning.

Complete answer:
The meaning of the phrase given to us in the question is, ‘ to retract what one has said’. We need to look for an option that has the closest meaning to the given definition of the idiom asked to us.

Option ‘a’, admit what you said was wrong, has a quiet similar essence to that of the meaning of the idiom.

Option b, admit what you did was a big mistake, is not falling around the meaning of the idiom, as there is no such mention of any mistake in the definition of the idiom.

Option c, is admitting that one is hungry, now this may sound very close to the idiom, considering the words used in the question, but when we match it with the meaning of the idiom, it is not what is asked.

Option d, admit to not having done anything wrong, is again not relevant to the explanation of the phrase provided to us.

Hence, with the aforementioned assertions, we can deduce that option ‘a’ is the correct explanation of the given idiom.

Note:
You can not remember all the idioms and phrases at once by cramming, so the trick that works, in the long run, is to enhance your vocabulary.