eat humble pie

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The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was rebracketed as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed.

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: sypat popel na hlavu — to admit one’s faults
• Finnish: nöyrtyä — to admit one’s faults
• Finnish: pyytää nöyrästi anteeksi — to admit one’s faults
• French: manger son chapeau — to admit one’s faults
• German: zu Kreuze kriechen — to admit one’s faults
• Hungarian: megalázkodik — to admit one’s faults
• Icelandic: leggja niður skottið — to admit one’s faults
• Italian: mangiare la polvere — to admit one’s faults
• Norwegian Bokmål: spise hatten sin — to admit one’s faults
• Norwegian Bokmål: krype til korset — to admit one’s faults
• Polish: pokajać się — to admit one’s faults
• Spanish: tragarse las palabras — to admit one’s faults
• Swedish: krypa till korset — to admit one’s faults