eat crow vs mistake

eat crow

verb
  • To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error. 

mistake

verb
  • To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. 

noun
  • An error; a blunder. 

  • A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. 

How often have the words eat crow and mistake occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )