humble pie

noun

Definition of humble pie

: a figurative serving of humiliation usually in the form of a forced submission, apology, or retraction —often used in the phrase eat humble pie

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These types of plays will continue till the general elections unless Modi really eats humble pie and reaches out to the opposition. — Bloomberg.com, "Modi’s Roadblock: Parliament’s Worst Budget Gridlock Since 2000," 6 Apr. 2018 And a big serving for humble pie for some of the loudmouths on the left. — Fox News, "Ingraham: The lawlessness of the Democratic Party," 20 Mar. 2018 Coach Dye is all humble pie, just glad to be here, honored, self-effacing. — Tom Corvin, latimes.com, "Remember the Titans: Forty years after Cal State Who, Fullerton takes on Purdue," 15 Mar. 2018 If the Pacers needed a little humble pie, this game should do it. — Clifton Brown, Indianapolis Star, "3 takeaways from the Pacers' loss to the Jazz," 7 Mar. 2018 Well, these six oddities are already quite a bit of humble pie for Google Translate to swallow, but let’s forgive and forget. — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, "The Shallowness of Google Translate," 30 Jan. 2018 There may be some humble pie on the menu for the administrators of Chelsea's Twitter account though. — SI.com, "Chelsea Mocked on Social Media Over Surprise Pursuit of Stoke Striker Peter Crouch," 19 Jan. 2018 Big servings of humble pie such as this: C’mon Mike! — Rolando Rosa, ajc, "LOOK: Mike & Mike host swallows pride, rocks Miami turnover chain after lost bet," 16 Nov. 2017 This season, with the Dolphins’ early struggles on offense — where the franchise ranks last in just about every important NFL statistical category — Gase is getting a dose of humble pie, and that could be a blessing in disguise. — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Kelly: Offensive guru? It’s on Adam Gase to get Dolphins’ inconsistent offense going | Commentary," 17 Oct. 2017

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