swallow one's pride
To set aside one's feelings of pride and adopt a more humble or appropriate stance.
pride
UK /pɹaɪd/ US /pɹaɪd/
noun 8verb 1name 1
Definitions
noun
1
The quality or state of being proud.
He swelled with pride as he held the trophy. His family watched with pride from the bleachers.
He takes great pride in his work.
2
The quality or state of being proud.
3
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
Pride goeth before the fall.
4
Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
Her long ginger hair is her pride.
The 18th century table is the pride of Mark's house/
5
Show; ostentation; glory.
lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.
verb
1
To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
I pride myself on being a good judge of character.
Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.
noun
1
The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
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