eat your words

• retractWithdraw something said
• apologizeAcknowledge a fault
• backtrackReverse one's position
• humble pieFigurative food of apology
• admitConfess or grant entry

wrong · swallow pride · regret · take back · mistake · embarrassed · recant · ashamed · grovel · reverse · concede · foot in mouth · blush · sorry · humiliated · sheepish · awkward · climb down

• idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
• word phraseslost for words, at a loss for words, in other words, word for word, put into words
• reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
• snap out of itsnap out of it, get a grip, get it together, shake it off, wake up