Related Clues

• Admit a mistake, so to speak
• Suffer embarrassment
• Be humiliated
• Accept a humiliating defeat
• Suffer humiliation
• Be cut down to size
• Admit making a mistake
• Retreat with one's tail between one's legs
• Be forced to recant
• Apologize, so to speak
• Issue an embarrassing retraction
• Have humble pie
• Swallow one's pride
• Admit to a mistake
• Apologize, maybe
• Have to admit a mistake
• Face up to being utterly wrong
• Lose face
• Face up to an embarrassing mistake
• Admit an embarrassing mistake