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单词 humble pie
释义 humble pie
  1. humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  2.  Obs.   a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like.
  3. eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.
 [1640-50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie; see NUMBLES]
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