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eating humble pie
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It was not by eating humble pie, fellow, that I have grown to what I am.
I have already granted that, and I am eating humble pie in asking for an explanation.
He would have liked his people to have a spirit and had waked up to the sense of their perpetually eating humble-pie.
After the break came, we went the limit in the way of eating humble pie to get you back again.
In such a coterie as this "eating humble-pie" is done only at the muzzle of a "shootin'-iron."
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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eating humble pie, such as: abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, and cringing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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