English

Verb

eat humble pie

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology
   • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl:

     Polly had a spice of girlish malice, and rather liked to see domineering Tom eat humble-pie, just enough to do him good, you know.

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External links

• humble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913