eat crow

:  to take in through the mouth as food :  ingest, chew, and swallow in turn

:  to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating

:  to bear the expense of :  take a loss on

:  something to eat :  food

:  any of various large usually entirely glossy black passerine birds (family Corvidae and especially genus Corvus)

:  a member of an American Indian people of the region between the Platte and Yellowstone rivers

:  the language of the Crow people

:  to make the loud shrill sound characteristic of a cock

:  to utter a sound expressive of pleasure

:  to exult gloatingly especially over the distress of another

:  the cry of the cock

:  a triumphant cry