Примеры употребления для humble pie
1. Gordon Brown is on the ropes, they hope, eating humble pie for missing his growth forecasts.
2. So ended the lesson: an encouraging beginning, then cockiness, followed by humble pie.
3. There is, moreover, a need for some lightly curried humble pie.
4. Sometime early tomorrow morning, one of these extraordinary fighters will have to eat a prodigious amount of humble pie.
5. Not their winners‘ speeches, but the humble–pie patter about how they don‘t give the Oscars the slightest thought.