Humble Pie

To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.

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Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or pie:

    “The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.”
    —Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931)