humble pie
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The term humble pie, for example, comes from pies made with umbles, or scraps of meat and offal that fed peasants who were seated far away from royalty at banquets.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023
Two central banks that had said they saw no need for rate hikes until 2023 or 2024 have eaten humble pie in the space of a week.
From Reuters • May 3, 2022
Yet the move did not just involve Sullivan publicly eating a very large slice of humble pie.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2021
“I think the universe was like, ‘OK, all right, let’s have some humble pie here,’” Perry says now.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2020
Having settled to eat humble pie with regard to the recalcitrant Boulot, and condone his enormities, a difficulty arose as to how he was to be communicated with.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
