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
Sumit	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi
Annelies	ah-ne-LEES (German), ahn-nə-LEES (Dutch)	German, Dutch
Eideard	-	Scottish
Evelien	ay-və-LEEN	Dutch
Joscelin	-	Old Norman
Ami (2)	AY-mee	English