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humble pie means to face
humiliation and
subsequently apologize for a
serious mistake. It
comes from
humble pie,
originally umble pie, a kind of
pie formerly...
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pie Chess pie Chestnut pie Chiffon pie Cream pie Custard pie Egg
pie Milk
pie Peanut pie Pecan pie Pumpkin pie Shoofly pie – a cake-like mol****es
pie...
- numble-
pie." A few
generations later the cook's
descendant would have said: "Ah, I
found this newt and this
adder in my
apron while baking (h)
umble-
pie." Over...
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servants ate
inferior pies made of the left-over "
umbles" – liver, heart, tripes, and
other offal,
hence the term "eating
humble pie". In
medieval times...
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various mammals are
common menu items. In
medieval times, "humble
pie" (originally "
umble pie") made from
animal innards (especially deer) was a
peasant food...
- eat
humble pie. The
English phrase is
something of a pun—"
umbles" were the intestines,
offal and
other less
valued meats of a deer.
Pies made of this...
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David Copperfield.
Byron sang on ten
Uriah Heep albums: Very 'eavy Very '
Umble, Salisbury, Look at Yourself,
Demons and Wizards, The Magician's Birthday...
- example,
humble pie used to be
umble pie because the
umbles were the
innards of a deer (so it was the poor man's
equivalent of
venison pie). I
actually found...
- "Deep
Purple in Rock". Allmusic.
Retrieved 2008-03-27. "Very 'Eavy... Very '
Umble". Allmusic.
Retrieved 2008-03-27. "Paranoid". Allmusic.
Retrieved 2008-03-10...
- [ISBN missing]
Umble,
Diane Zimmerman (2000).
Holding the Line: the
Telephone in Old
Order Mennonite and
Amish Life.
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Umble, Diane...
