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to retract / take back one's words, to withdraw one's words; to eat one's words идиом.

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— Боюсь, что должен взять свои слова назад и присоединиться к Роберту, — говорит им Алвин, — хотя бы ради самосохранения.
“I’m afraid I’ll have to withdraw my suggestion and go along with Robert,” Alvin tells them all, “if only for my own protection.”
Кизи, Кен / Над кукушкиным гнездомKesey, Ken / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
© Ken Kesey, 1962
© renewed Ken Kesey, 1990
© The Estate of Ken Kesey, 2002
Над кукушкиным гнездом
Кизи, Кен
© Перевод. В. Голышев, 2004
© Издание на русском языке, оформление. ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", 2004
Холаберд был приятен и ласков, но намекнул со вздохом, что если будет напечатано такое заключение, то ему, директору, придется взять назад все свои слова о великих достижениях, на которые он, как следовало понимать, вдохновил своего подчиненного.
Holabird was gentle and pretty, but he sighed that if this conclusion were published, he would have to take back all the things he had said about the magnificence which, presumably, he had inspired his subordinate to accomplish.
Льюис, Синклер / ЭрроусмитLewis, Sinclair / Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith
Lewis, Sinclair
© 2002 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
© 1925 by Harcourt, Inc.
© renewed 1953 by Michael Lewis
Эрроусмит
Льюис, Синклер
© "Государственное издательство художественной литературы", 1956

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to retract / take back one's words; to withdraw one's words; to eat one's words

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