| 单词 | to eat humble pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat humble pie a. to eat humble pie: to be very submissive; to apologize humbly; to submit to humiliation. [From humble adj., perhaps with jocular reference to sense 1 here. Compare to eat rue-pie (Lincolnsh.) to rue, repent.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > self-abasement > humble oneself [verb (intransitive)] to eat one's words1571 humblea1592 to eat (any one's) toads1815 to eat humble pie1830 to grovel in the dust or dirt1865 1830 R. Forby & G. Turner in R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia I. App. 432 ‘To make one eat humble pie’—i.e. To make him lower his tone, and be submissive. It may possibly be derived from the umbles of the deer, which were the perquisite of the huntsman; and if so, it should be written umble-pie, the food of inferiors. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (at cited word) To eat humble pie, to be very submissive, var. dial. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xiv. 136 You must get up and eat humble pie this morning, my boy. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xlii ‘The scornful Dog’, had to eat wormwood pudding and humble pie. 1871 J. C. Jeaffreson Ann. Oxf. I. xiv. 224 The town had..to eat a considerable amount of humble pie. 1883 W. D. Howells Register ii Trying to think what was the very humblest pie I could eat. < as lemmas |
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