Synonyms for eat humble pie
| Grammar : Verb |
Top 10 synonyms for eat humble pie Other synonyms for the word eat humble pie
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- buckle under
- butter up
- cater to
- cave in
- consign
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- cry uncle
- deliver up
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- eat one's words
- eat shit
- entrust
- fall
- fall all over
- flatter
- fold
- forego
- go along with
- go down
- go under
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- knuckle
- knuckle under
- kowtow
- let go
- make much of
- make up to
- pack it in
- pamper
- part with
- play dead
- play up to
- prostrate
- put up white flag
- quit
- relinquish
- renounce
- revere
- roll over
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- submit
- succumb
- suck up to
- swallow one's pride
- throw in the towel
- toss it in
- truckle
- tuck one's tail
- waive
- wheedle
- yes
- yield
Définition of eat humble pie
- As in surrender : verb give up; resign
- As in eat crow : verb humble oneself
- As in grovel : verb abase, demean oneself
- No girl in our school would come and eat humble pie like this.
- Extract from : « Hunter's Marjory » by Margaret Bruce Clarke
- If I'm wrong I'll eat humble pie, but I'm not eatin' any now, thank you.
- Extract from : « The House 'Round the Corner » by Gordon Holmes
- Of course she would have to eat humble pie about the war, but he was the last man to say “I told you so!”
- Extract from : « Good Old Anna » by Marie Belloc Lowndes
- I shrewdly suspect that that estimable gentleman is going to eat humble pie, of my baking, from his wife's recipe.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- He'll hate to have to eat humble pie to Bruce after all his din against Bruce's way of thinking.
- Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
- She had expected him to eat humble pie, to throw himself at her feet and implore forgiveness; but, no!
- Extract from : « When Dreams Come True » by Ritter Brown
- If this was an impracticable course to pursue, it was evident that he must abandon it and eat humble pie.
- Extract from : « Brooke's Daughter » by Adeline Sergeant
- I do really assure you she won't; it's only wasting your time, and making you eat humble pie.
- Extract from : « A Family Man (From the Fifth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- "If father has to eat humble pie to Mr. Nugent on my account it will be simply rotten," she murmured.
- Extract from : « A Traitor's Wooing » by Headon Hill
- He had thought himself in an unpleasant fix before; and that to escape scot free he must eat humble pie with a bad grace.
- Extract from : « The Castle Inn » by Stanley John Weyman
Antonyms for eat humble pie
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