To eat humble pie Meaning, Definition & Usage
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- to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles . Halliwell. Thackeray.
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- . See under
Humble .
