humble pie

humble pie

noun
1.
humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
2.
Obsolete. a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like.
3.
eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.

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Humble pie is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Origin:
1640–50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie; see numbles
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humble pie
 
n
1.  (formerly) a pie made from the heart, entrails, etc, of a deer
2.  eat humble pie to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated
 
[C17: earlier an umble pie, by mistaken word division from a numble pie, from numbles offal of a deer, from Old French nombles, ultimately from Latin lumbulus a little loin, from lumbus loin]

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