what does it mean to eat your words
Eat your words is a response to someone bragging or a an over optimistic prediction. Example; Your team is so bad we are going to beat you by 20 points.The response could be, I'm going to make you eat those words. It voices disagreement and a challenge.his idiom saying that if you become thin and weak from sorrow, if your misery is making you sick, then you are figuratively eating your heart out. --- In modern usage, the expression means to be extremely jealous or upset.