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.

Read more about Humble Pie:  Etymology

Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or pie:

    “The gods themselves,
    Humbling their deities to love, have taken
    The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
    Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune
    A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
    Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I see the killer in him
    and he turns on an oven,
    an oven, an oven, an oven
    and on a pie plate he sticks
    in my Yellow Star....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)