"eat humble pie" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-eat humble pie.ogg [Australia] Forms: eats humble pie [present, singular, third-person], eating humble pie [participle, present], ate humble pie [past], eaten humble pie [participle, past]
Etymology: The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was re-interpreted as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed. Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> humble pie}} eat humble pie (third-person singular simple present eats humble pie, present participle eating humble pie, simple past ate humble pie, past participle eaten humble pie)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Related terms: swallow one's pride, eat crow, pass under the yoke Translations (to admit one's faults): sypat popel na hlavu (Czech), nöyrtyä (Finnish), pyytää nöyrästi anteeksi (Finnish), manger son chapeau (French), zu Kreuze kriechen (German), megalázkodik (Hungarian), leggja niður skottið (Icelandic), mangiare la polvere (Italian), spise hatten sin (Norwegian Bokmål), krype til korset (Norwegian Bokmål), pokajać się [imperfective] (Polish), tragarse las palabras (Spanish), krypa till korset (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-eat_humble_pie-en-verb-PsccrRG2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Polish links with redundant wikilinks

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          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "sypat popel na hlavu"
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          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "megalázkodik"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "leggja niður skottið"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "mangiare la polvere"
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          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "spise hatten sin"
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          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
          "word": "tragarse las palabras"
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          "sense": "to admit one's faults",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "sypat popel na hlavu"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "nöyrtyä"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "pyytää nöyrästi anteeksi"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "manger son chapeau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "zu Kreuze kriechen"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "megalázkodik"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "leggja niður skottið"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "mangiare la polvere"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "spise hatten sin"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "krype til korset"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "pokajać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "tragarse las palabras"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to admit one's faults",
      "word": "krypa till korset"
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  "word": "eat humble pie"
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