swallow one's pride



swallow one's pride

Humble oneself, as in She decided to swallow her pride and apologize. This idiom employs swallow in the sense of "refrain from expressing," a usage dating from the early 1600s.
See also: pride, swallow

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Enyo-Greek Mythology
Ifan-Welsh
FÁBiÁN-Hungarian
Hila-Hebrew
Fariha-Arabic, Urdu
Jitendra-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati