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humble pie

American  

noun

  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.

idioms

  1. eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation.

    He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.
humble pie British  

noun

  1. (formerly) a pie made from the heart, entrails, etc, of a deer

  2. to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated

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Etymology

Origin of humble pie

1640–50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie; numbles

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