acknowledge the corn

acknowledge the corn
To acknowledge defeat or admit to a mistake; to cop a plea; to admit to a small error but not a larger one.

I should like to take a job of that kind on a wager with him, or any other New Hampshire man, and if I did not come out a little ahead on the "home stretch," why then I would "acknowledge the corn," and own myself beaten.


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