Usually means: Ingest soil; fail humiliatingly, metaphorically.
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  1. eat dirt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. eat dirt: Collins English Dictionary
  3. eat dirt: Wiktionary
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▸ verb:  (idiomatic, dated) To eat humble pie.

Similar:
eat humble pie, lower, demean, eat one's pride, swallow one's pride, humiliate, bring to one's knees, humble, prostrate, enhumble, more...

Phrases:
to eat dirt, more...

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Similar:
eat humble pie, lower, demean, eat one's pride, swallow one's pride, humiliate, bring to one's knees, humble, prostrate, enhumble, more...

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to eat dirt, more...



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