- humble pie
- noun Date: 1830 a figurative serving of humiliation usually in the form of a forced submission, apology, or retraction — often used in the phrase eat humble pie
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
humble pie
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humble pie — 1. humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation. 2. Obs. 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… … Universalium
humble pie — n. (forced) to eat humble pie * * * (forced) to eat humble pie … Combinatory dictionary
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