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eat humble pie to admit that you were wrong about something承认错误; 赔礼道歉 eat humble pie 见HUMBLE. eat humble pie make a humble apology and accept humiliation 低声下气地道歉(接受羞辱)。 [ORIGIN: humble pie is from a pun based on UMBLES 'offal', considered inferior food.] eat humble ˈpie(BrE)(NAmEeat ˈcrow)to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made认错;道歉;赔罪From a pun on the old wordumbles,meaning ‘offal’, which was considered to be food for poor people.源自古词 umbles 的双关谐音,意为“内脏”,被认为是穷人的食物。 |