What Does “eat humble pie” mean?
Definition:
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you were wrong.
Origin
Humble pie is from a mid-19th-century term umbles, meaning ‘offal’ (i.e., heart, liver, and entrails of the deer), which was considered to be an inferior food reserved to the servants (i.e., the humble people.) By contrast, the lords and their guests had the best portions of the meat.
Other Similar phrases:
– Eat dirt.
– Eat crow
The phrase “eat humble pie” is used in British English. In American English, another variation of the idiom is used: eat crow. The taste of crows is said to taste terrible. Hence the feeling of unease when you admit you were wrong about something.
Example(s)
In the beginning, she boasted that she would get the best grade. But then she was forced to eat humble pie.
The critics will have to eat humble pie and publicly apologize to us for underestimating our potential.
This idiom is in the food category.
