humble-pie
humble pie
noun
Idioms 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 | |
| —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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Humble-pie
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