Antonyms for eat dirt
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : durt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dÉœrt |
Definition of eat dirt
Origin :- 15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c.1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritanan (cf. Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan).
- Used abusively of persons from c.1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.
- As in eat crow : verb humble oneself
- As in cringe : verb flinch, recoil from danger
- As in fall : verb be overthrown by an enemy; surrender
- As in grovel : verb abase, demean oneself
- I am glad when men who live by dirty ways are made to eat dirt.
- Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
- "Servia will have to eat dirt," said Larry when he had finished.
- Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor
- Not more than any other youngster did he like to eat dirt or to be misjudged, but he saw himself in a cleft stick.
- Extract from : « Kim » by Rudyard Kipling
- I'm ready to eat dirt, if need be, but for a fire-eating parson I still think I did pretty well!
- Extract from : « Margarita's Soul » by Ingraham Lovell
- His proud soul must eat dirt, if need be, for the sake of eighty pounds.
- Extract from : « The House with the Green Shutters » by George Douglas Brown
- To eat dirt is bad enough, but to find that we have eaten more than was necessary may chance to give us an indigestion.
- Extract from : « The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V » by James Russell Lowell
- They eat dirt, they sleep in dirt, they breathe dirt 'til their backs are bent, their hands twisted an' warped.
- Extract from : « The Girl of the Golden West » by David Belasco
- He would, he said, make them eat dirt, the vilest and most loathsome of all dirt.
- Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Synonyms for eat dirt
- apple-polish
- back down
- be casualty
- be destroyed
- be killed
- be lost
- be taken
- beg
- beg for mercy
- bend
- beseech
- blandish
- blench
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- capitulate
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- defer to
- die
- dodge
- draw back
- drop
- duck
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- eat one's words
- eat shit
- fall all over
- fall to pieces
- fawn
- flatter
- give in
- give up
- give way
- go down
- go under
- grovel
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- lie down
- make much of
- make up to
- obey
- pamper
- pass into enemy hands
- perish
- play up to
- prostrate
- quail
- quiver
- resign
- revere
- shrink
- shy
- slump
- snivel
- soft-soap
- start
- stoop
- submit
- succumb
- suck up to
- swallow one's pride
- tremble
- truckle
- tuck one's tail
- wheedle
- wince
- yes
- yield
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