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humble pie

Historical a pie made of the inner parts of a deer, served to the servants after a hunt

Etymology: earlier umble pie < umbles, entrails of a deer < ME noumbles: see numbles

humble pie Idioms

eat humble pie

to undergo humiliation, esp. that of admitting one's error and apologizing

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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