eat humble pie

Meaning

Verb

to admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology

Origin

The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was re-interpreted as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed.

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