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humble pie n 1. (Cookery) (formerly) a pie made from the heart, entrails, etc., of a deer eat humble pie to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated [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] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If you've made a fool of yourself you must eat humble pie. Morse, wondering the while how it felt to eat such humble pie. 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. |
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