humble pie

     

To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize an face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie is also a term for a variety of pastries, originally based on medieval meat tripe pies.

Trivia about humble pie

  • Figuratively, it's a modest dessert eaten apologetically
  • After saying I knew the words to "30 Days In The Hole", I turned red & had this, the band who sang the song
  • When publicly admitting to a mistake, eat this 17th c. English dish of deer innards; it's delicious!
  • To eat crow is "to eat" this type of "pie"
  • "30 Days in the Hole" if you can't name this old Peter Frampton band whose name refers to a forced apology