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eating humble pie

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It was not by eating humble pie, fellow, that I have grown to what I am.

I have already granted that, and I am eating humble pie in asking for an explanation.

He would have liked his people to have a spirit and had waked up to the sense of their perpetually eating humble-pie.

After the break came, we went the limit in the way of eating humble pie to get you back again.

In such a coterie as this "eating humble-pie" is done only at the muzzle of a "shootin'-iron."

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On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eat humble pie, such as: eat dirt, eat one's words, eat shit, swallow one's pride, and tuck one's tail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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