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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Humble Pie To eat humble pie. To come down from a position you have assumed, to be obliged to take "a lower room." "Umbles" are the heart, liver, and entrails of the deer, the huntsman's perquisites. When the lord and his household dined the venison pasty was served on the daïs, but the umbles were made into a pie for the huntsman and his fellows. N.B. Pie and patty are both diminutives of pasty. Pasty and patty are limited to venison, veal, and some few other meats; pie is of far wider signification, including fruit, mince, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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With Dave Clempson replacing Frampton, Humble Pie moved towards an even harder sound emphasizing Marriott's blues and soul roots but was still unable to break into the mainstream. Constant shifts in line-up prevented the band from realizing its full potential, though they continued recording and performing until 1976.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Submission | Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HUMBLE PIE |
| English words defined with "HUMBLE PIE": To eat dirt ♦ Umble pie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HUMBLE PIE": Misnomers. (references) |
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Screenplays | Somebody who sold you to Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer! (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) | |
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Expressions using "HUMBLE PIE": eat humble pie ♦ make smb. eat humble pie ♦ To eat humble pie. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
humble pie | 107 |
humble pie discography | 5 |
humble pie tab | 4 |
humble pie raleigh | 4 |
humble pie tablature | 2 |
humble pie recipe | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "HUMBLE PIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ul veten (condescend, demean oneself, eat humble pie, stoop), pajtohem (abide, accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, concur, conform, cotton, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with, subscribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إعتذر بخنوع (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | унижавам се (abase oneself, crawl, decline, deign, eat humble pie, grovel, prostrate oneself, stoop, swallow one's pride), преглъщам обида (eat humble pie, lie down), принуден съм да искам извинение (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přilézt ke křížku (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | forcer qn se rétracter (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zu Kreuze kriechen (to eat humble pie), kleine Brötchen backen (to eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ת צל ב"כ ע" (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaszívja kijelentését (to eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umblehay iepay se umili (cower, crouch, eat humble pie, grovel, kiss the dust, lower, prostrate, truckle), a-şi retrage cuvintele (eat humble pie, eat one's words, swallow). (various references) проглотить обиду (eat humble pie). (various references) skočiti sebi u usta (eat humble pie). (various references) reconocer su error (eat humble pie, eat one's words), disculparse humildemente (eat humble pie). (various references) นอบน้อมมาก (eat humble pie). (various references) hatasını itiraf etmek (eat humble pie), yanıldığını itiraf etmek (eat humble pie), burnunu sürtmek (deflate, make a dent in, make smb. eat humble pie, put smb.'s nose out of joint, set down, sit, teach smb.'s lesson), burnu sürtülmek (come down, eat humble pie, learn one's lesson). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-p-u" | |
-3 letters: ephebi, helium, hempie, humble, imphee, pileum. | |
-4 letters: belie, bleep, blimp, blume, bumph, elemi, hilum, ileum, imbue, impel, plebe, plumb, plume, umbel. | |
-5 letters: beep, bile, blip, blue, buhl, bump, elhi, emeu, hebe, heel, heil, helm, help, heme, hemp, hump, lieu, limb, lime, limp, lipe, lube, lump, mile, mule, peel, pele, pile, pleb, plie, plum. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-p-u" | |
+4 letters: unimpeachable. | |
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