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
Donatianus	-	Late Roman
Gennadi	gye-NAH-dee, gee-NAH-dee	Russian
Dzhamal	-	Chechen
Humphry	HUM-free	English (Rare)
Viltautas	-	Lithuanian
Feofil	-	Russian