英语词汇eat one-s words的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

eat one’s words. “God eateth not his word when he hath once spoken” is the first recorded use of this expression meaning “to retreat in a humiliating way”—in a 1571 religious work. There are several instances of people literally eating their words, the earliest occurring in 1370 when the pope sent two delegates to Bernabo Visconti bearing a rolled parchment, informing him that he had been excommunicated. Infuriated, Visconti arrest- ed the delegates and made them eat the parchment, words, leaden seal, and all. I doubt that this suggested to eat one’s own’s words, but it is a good story.

词汇	eat one-s words
词源	eat one’s words. “God eateth not his word when he hath once spoken” is the first recorded use of this expression meaning “to retreat in a humiliating way”—in a 1571 religious work. There are several instances of people literally eating their words, the earliest occurring in 1370 when the pope sent two delegates to Bernabo Visconti bearing a rolled parchment, informing him that he had been excommunicated. Infuriated, Visconti arrest- ed the delegates and made them eat the parchment, words, leaden seal, and all. I doubt that this suggested to eat one’s own’s words, but it is a good story.
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