humble pie

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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