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
Braiden	BRAY-dən	English (Modern)
Jela	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovak
Richard	['ritʃəd]
Patrice (1)	pat-REES	French
Petia	-	Russian, Bulgarian
Leevi	LE:-vee	Finnish