Question

Take care of what you say! You will have to eat your words!

• A. You have no food to eat.
• B. You will have to take back what you have said.
• C. You are not good with your language.
• D. None of the above.

Hint:

Eat your words means to take back what you said earlier.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

The idiom eat your words is common in spoken English, and this question checks if you know its true sense rather than its literal wording.

1. You have no food to eat: this is a literal misreading, since the idiom is not about actual eating.
2. You will have to take back what you have said: this matches the idiom directly, since it is used when someone must retract a wrong statement.
3. You are not good with your language: this option shifts the meaning to poor language skill, which the idiom never implies.
4. None of the above: this can only be right if no option matches, but option B already fits well.

So option B is correct, since retracting a statement is exactly what eating your words means.

Let's summarize:

• Eat your words means to admit a past statement was wrong and withdraw it.
• Literal food-based readings of the phrase are always wrong here.

This kind of idiom question rewards knowing the fixed expression, not just the individual words.