| 单词 | humble pie |
| 释义 | humble pieSEE SYNONYMS FOR humble pie ON THESAURUS.COM nounhumility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation. Obsolete. a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like. Idioms for humble pieeat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error. Origin of humble pie1640–50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie;see numbles Words nearby humble pieHumberside, Humbert I, humble, humblebee, humblebrag, humble pie, humble plant, humbly, Humboldt, Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Current Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for humble pieBritish Dictionary definitions for humble piehumble pie noun(formerly) a pie made from the heart, entrails, etc, of a deer eat humble pie to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated Word Origin for humble pieC17: earlier an umble pie, by mistaken word division from a numble pie, from numbles offal of a deer, from Old French nombles, ultimately from Latin lumbulus a little loin, from lumbus loin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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