单词 | eat humble pie |
释义 | eat humble pieeat humble pie 1 (also eat crow American EnglishAmE)ADMIT to admit that you were wrong and say that you are sorry 认错,道歉 Examples from the Corpus eat humble pie• Martinez had to eat crow when he bragged that the Red Sox would win the division and they came in last.• Taylor's victory in the semi-final has forced many of her critics to eat humble pie.• The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season, though they deserve better fare.• Come and take potluck eat humble pie whatever. → eat humble pie at eat(4) 2 SORRY/APOLOGIZEto admit that you were wrong about something 承认错误,赔礼道歉 Examples from the Corpus eat humble pie• The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season, though they deserve better fare.• Come and take potluck eat humble pie whatever. → eat humble pie at humble1(3) |
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