eat humble pie

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

Sinónimos

eat dirt crow

eat dirt pie

eat humble crow

be sorry

show repentance

eat one’s words

Traducciones

avaler son chapeau

Abstriche machen

μετανιώνω

mettre de l’eau dans son vin

se repentir

regretter amèrement

pentire

Etimología (Inglés)

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

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