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Eat Humble Pie to be apologetic or suffer humiliation; to act humble or admit guilt

Accepted Answer

When he finds out how wrong he's been, he'll eat humble pie! This expression is very similar to "eat crow," but it comes from medieval times, when there really was a pie called an "umble" or "numble" pie. Umbles were the heart, liver, and entrails of deer and other animals, and only servants ate a pie made out of animals' guts. "Umble pie" was changed to "humble," which means lowly and meek. By the early 1800s the expression "eat humble pie" meant profusely apologizing for a humiliating error.

Idiom	Eat Humble Pie
Example	When he finds out how wrong he's been, he'll eat humble pie!
Meaning	to be apologetic or suffer humiliation; to act humble or admit guilt
Origin	This expression is very similar to "eat crow," but it comes from medieval times, when there really was a pie called an "umble" or "numble" pie. Umbles were the heart, liver, and entrails of deer and other animals, and only servants ate a pie made out of animals' guts. "Umble pie" was changed to "humble," which means lowly and meek. By the early 1800s the expression "eat humble pie" meant profusely apologizing for a humiliating error.

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