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humble pie

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humble pie
n.
A pie formerly made from the edible organs of a deer or hog.
Idiom:
eat humble pie
To be forced to apologize abjectly or admit one's faults in humiliating circumstances.
[Alteration (influenced by humble) of obsolete umble pie : Middle English umbles, edible animal organs (variant of numbles, from Norman French nombles, from Old French, loin of veal, probably from alteration of Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus, loin) + pie.]
humble pie
Noun
eat humble pie to be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated [earlier an umble pie, from numbles offal of a deer]


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If you've made a fool of yourself you must eat humble pie.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Morse, wondering the while how it felt to eat such humble pie.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
To have eaten humble pie, to have been snubbed and patronized and satirized and have consented to take it as one of the conditions of the bargain--to have done this, and done it all for nothing, surely gave one a right to protest.
The American by James, Henry View in context
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