- Home
- Idioms
- eat humble pie
eat humble pie
eat humble pie
to act very humble when one is shown to be wrong. I think I'm right, but if I'm wrong, I'll eat humble pie. You think you're so smart. I hope you have to eat humble pie.
eat humble pie
(British, American & Australian) also eat crow (American) to be forced to admit that you are wrong and to say you are sorry The producers of the advert had to eat humble pie and apologize for misrepresenting the facts.
eat humble pie
To be forced to apologize abjectly or admit one's faults in humiliating circumstances.