单词 | humble pie |
释义 | humble pien.ΘΚΠ 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.] ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.a1665 |
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