humble pie

Looking back, he says, it was a hefty and much needed helping of humble pie.

Her pen travelled with remarkable ease over the paper; the humble pie, it appeared, was being consumed without much difficulty.

I shrewdly suspect that that estimable gentleman is going to eat humble pie, of my baking, from his wife's recipe.

She forced her to accompany her to Baltimore to see Elaine, though she rebelled bitterly against this eating of "humble pie."

I do really assure you she won't; it's only wasting your time, and making you eat humble pie.

It was not by eating humble pie, fellow, that I have grown to what I am.