To eat humble pie means to apologize for an error in a humiliating manner. This is used as a noun form.
Sample Usage
1.You will have to eat humble pie; if I prove the issue.
2. It is time for the politicians to eat humble pie.
3. Tom had to eat humble pie, when the allegations were proved.
4. Our politicians are so arrogant, that they refuse to eat humble pie, even if they are proved to be wrong.
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