humble pie

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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 about humble pie

  1. eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.

Origin of humble pie

1
1640–50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie;see numbles

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humble pie

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

  2. eat humble pie to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated

Origin of humble pie

1
C17: 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

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