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English in agreement: blades do some retracting (3,4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eat ones words

'do some retracting' is the definition.
(to eat one's words is to retract a statement)

'english in agreement blades' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'in agreement' becomes 'atone' (at one can mean in agreement).
'blades' becomes 'swords' ('sword' can be a synonym of 'blade').
'e'+'atone'+'swords'='EAT ONES WORDS'

(Other definitions for eat ones words that I've seen before include "Recant - retract" , "Take back earlier pronouncement" , "Humbly take back something said" , "Retract what one has said" , "Retract a statement" .)

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