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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Adalet	-	Turkish
Zuberi	-	Eastern African, Swahili
ÖDÖN	-	Hungarian
Kali	KAH-lee (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Bengali, Tamil
Iosephus	-	Late Roman
Dumitru	-	Romanian