ALL meanings of eat humble pie
eat hum·ble pie
E e - verbal expression eat humble pie be forced to admit error 1
- noun eat humble pie humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation. 1
- noun eat humble pie Obsolete. a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like. 1
- idioms eat humble pie eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error. 1
- noun eat humble pie to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated 0
- noun eat humble pie to undergo humiliation, esp. that of admitting one's error and apologizing 0
- verb eat humble pie (Idiomatic) VI to admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology. 0