Tra từ eat humble pie - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

eat humble pie eat humble ˈpie idiom (BrE) (NAmE eat ˈcrow)to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made From a pun on the old word umbles, meaning ‘offal’, which was considered to be food for poor people. Main entry: ↑eat_idiom