If someone has given an opinion about something and is now proved to be wrong, you can say that they will have to eat their words.
England made Denmark eat their words with a brilliant victory in the European basketball championship. Danish coach Steen Knudsen had criticised England prior to their semi-final clash.
The company's embattled Sir Denys has had to eat his words about the company being recession-proof. `When I suggested that I saw no return to the dark days of recession, I was clearly wrong,' he acknowledges.
If you claim that something will definitely happen in a certain way and then say `famous last words', you are suggesting light-heartedly that it is quite possible that you will be proved wrong.
`There won't be any more positive tests from the ones completed in Britain before the Olympics,' he assured us. Then, he added: `These might be famous last words.'
`All under control,' said Bertie. `Famous last words,' added Idris with a wide grin.
You can also use famous last words to point out that you were in fact wrong about something.
When I set out from Birmingham I thought, at least I'm going to get an early finish. Famous last words.
If you say that you are going to tell someone something in words of one syllable, you mean that you are going to say it as simply and clearly as possible. You often use this expression to suggest that the other person is stupid or slow to understand something.
Then he wanted to know if I would help out, if it became necessary, by accepting the nomination for Vice-President. I told him in words of one syllable that I would not.
I'm sure I don't have to spell things out in words of one syllable to you.
If you are lost for words or at a loss for words, you are so amazed, shocked, or moved by something that you do not know what to say or how to express your feelings in words. You can also say that you are stuck for words.
It has been a long time, a very long year since was killed, and now at last we have justice. At a time like this, I have thought of so many things I wanted to say, but I'm lost for words.
I had the feeling they were all waiting for me to say something. But for the first time in my life I felt at a loss for words.
I was stuck for words when I heard the news. I couldn't believe it. I got a phone call from our assistant saying I had been picked and I thought he was winding me up.
If you do not mince your words or do not mince words when you are giving an opinion, you state it clearly and directly, even though you know that some people will not like what you are saying.
She did not mince her words when she came to the platform to demand a vote of no confidence in the president.
Ordinary people by Western do not mince their words in expressing their worries about the effects of the price rises.
I tell it like it is. I don't mince words.
If you accuse someone of putting words into your mouth or in your mouth, you mean that they are reporting opinions or statements which they claim are yours, but which you have never actually held or made.
You're trying to get me to say things and I'm rather annoyed with you! You're putting words into my mouth which have got nothing to do with me or my book!
At medical school, students are shown videos of bad doctors being arrogant, reaching for the prescription pad as soon as patients walk in, putting words in patients' mouths.
If you take the words out of someone's mouth, you say the thing that they were just about to say.
`Well, it's been amazing,' she said in closing. `You took the words right out of my mouth, Lisa.'
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