Idiom
swallow the leek
Meaning
To change one's mind.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He had to swallow the leek and admit he was wrong.”
“After arguing for hours that his plan was best, he finally had to swallow the leek when the data proved him wrong.”
“The politician was forced to swallow the leek and support the new policy, despite having spent months campaigning against it in public.”
Examples
simple
“He had to swallow the leek and admit he was wrong.”
contextual
“After arguing for hours that his plan was best, he finally had to swallow the leek when the data proved him wrong.”
complex
“The politician was forced to swallow the leek and support the new policy, despite having spent months campaigning against it in public.”
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