humble

eat humble pie make a humble apology and accept humiliation.

☞ Humble pie is from a mid-19th-century pun based on umbles, meaning 'offal', which was considered to be an inferior food.

2013Daily Telegraph He said all the pro-independence campaign has offered are complaints of scaremongering and Alex Salmond needs to swallow 'big pieces of humble pie' to resolve the current 'crisis'.

your humble abode used to refer to your home with an ironic or humorous show of modesty.

词组	humble
释义	humble eat humble pie make a humble apology and accept humiliation. ☞ Humble pie is from a mid-19th-century pun based on umbles, meaning 'offal', which was considered to be an inferior food. 2013Daily Telegraph He said all the pro-independence campaign has offered are complaints of scaremongering and Alex Salmond needs to swallow 'big pieces of humble pie' to resolve the current 'crisis'. your humble abode used to refer to your home with an ironic or humorous show of modesty.
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