eat humble pie
To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.
They were good-natured enough out of their cups, and ate their humble-pie with very good appetites at a reconciliation dinner which Colonel W. had with the 44th, and where he was a
pie
/paɪ/
noun 11verb 4name 3adj 1
Collocations
8(noun.)
ADJ
apple, meat, etc.
mud
After the rain, we spent the afternoon building mud pies by the riverbank.
QUANT
piece, slice
VERB + PIE
eat, have | bake, cook, make
PIE + NOUN
filling | dish
PREP
in a/the ~
The secret ingredient in that pie is cinnamon and brown sugar.
Definitions
noun
1
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
2
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
3
A pizza.
4
A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
5
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.
verb
1
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
2
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3
To ignore (someone).
Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.
just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
noun
1
Magpie.
Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.
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Idioms & Phrases
pie in the sky
A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.
Don't you think I have anything better to do than go scrambling around hundreds of square miles of the toughest wilderness in the state looking for pie in the sky?
humble pie
A pie made from the offal of deer or hog.
piece of the pie
A personal share of a limited resource.
I'm astonished at the passivity of people who are so worried about themselves, who are so concerned about protecting their piece of the pie, who are not willing to make the kind of
finger in the pie
A share in the doing of something; involvement.
They informed us that the cause of her committing this rash deed was a dispute with her mistress, but on further inquiry it appears that Cupid had a finger in the pie.
Example Bank
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The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
Wiktionary02
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
Wiktionary03
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
Wiktionary04
I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
Wiktionary05
Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person
Wiktionary06
just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, pie is marked as figuratively, slang, obsolete, US, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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