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:

    “I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’re going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?”
    —Joan Baez (b. 1941)

    “No man’s pie is freed
    From his ambitious finger.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)