VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Eat Humble Pie

Meaning:

To admit defeat or error, to accept humiliation

Examples:

  • You have to eat humble pie.
  • They had to eat humble pie when the rumors they were spreading were proved false.
  • Eat humble pie and get used to it mate.
  • Have you ever had to eat humble pie?
  • Anson was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to her.
  • A little humble pie would seem to be the order of the day in the Hemming household, once again.
  • It's difficult to see eat humble pie in a sentence .
  • Taylor's victory in the semi-final has forced many of her critics to eat humble pie.
  • Ramsay has also penned two autobiographical books, Humble Pie and Playing with Fire.
  • But even the most brutal British journalists, who are kind of snooty, have seen screenings in London and have had to eat humble pie.
  • A man among men is he who knows when to eat humble pie and when to hold his head high.
  • I'm glad they are now eating humble pie.
  • Asking any Wikipedian to eat humble pie, admit their sins and promise to be good, is unrealistic.
  • Be careful of what you say or you'll have to eat humble pie.