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单词 humble pie
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humble pien.

1. = umble-pie, a pie made of the ‘umbles’ or inwards of a deer (or other animal). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie
rafiolea1425
shred-pie1573
Florentine1579
marrowbone pie1595
marrow pie1598
meat pie1607
mutton pie1607
olive pie1615
venison piea1616
flesh-pie1616
veal (and ham) piea1625
godiveau1653
lumber-pie1656
mermaid pie1661
umble-pie1663
humble piea1665
trotter-pie1693
stump pie1695
mugget pie1696
pot-pie1702
squab-pie1708
pork pie1723
steak pie1723
Perigord pie1751
pasticcio1772
fidget pie1790
muggety pie1800
numble pie1822
Florentine pie1823
pastilla1834
kidney-pie1836
beef-steak pie1841
stand pie1872
Melton Mowbray1875
timbale1880
pâté en croûte1929
tourtière1953
growler1989
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 252 To season Humble-Pyes.
1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian xii. 172 Robin helped him largely to numble-pie..and the other dainties of his table.]
2.
a. to eat humble pie: to be very submissive; to apologize humbly; to submit to humiliation. [From humble adj., perhaps with jocular reference to sense 1 here. Compare to eat rue-pie (Lincolnsh.) to rue, repent.]
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the mind > emotion > humility > self-abasement > humble oneself [verb (intransitive)]
to eat one's words1571
humblea1592
to eat (any one's) toads1815
to eat humble pie1830
to grovel in the dust or dirt1865
1830 R. Forby & G. Turner in R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia I. App. 432 ‘To make one eat humble pie’—i.e. To make him lower his tone, and be submissive. It may possibly be derived from the umbles of the deer, which were the perquisite of the huntsman; and if so, it should be written umble-pie, the food of inferiors.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (at cited word) To eat humble pie, to be very submissive, var. dial.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xiv. 136 You must get up and eat humble pie this morning, my boy.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xlii ‘The scornful Dog’, had to eat wormwood pudding and humble pie.
1871 J. C. Jeaffreson Ann. Oxf. I. xiv. 224 The town had..to eat a considerable amount of humble pie.
1883 W. D. Howells Register ii Trying to think what was the very humblest pie I could eat.
b. In other analogous expressions.
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1861 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon xxi, in Temple Bar Aug. 10 The staple in the bill of fare was Humble Pie.
1895 Times 9 Jan. 4/1 To sue for peace when further resistance becomes hopeless is a kind of ‘humble pie’ that fate has condemned all vanquished nations to swallow from time immemorial.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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