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What does eat humble pie mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology
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Otherwise, the board will never be able to claim to be representational and the minister will have to eat humble pie.
And those predicting total economic mayhem may still be forced to eat humble pie by this time next year if economic growth starts to pick up.
Meanwhile Cameron is forced to eat humble pie.
He swore to me that he had left it back in my shed, but had to eat humble pie when he discovered it was in his garage all the time.
There was much schadenfreude in the business press this week as three capitalist titans were forced to eat humble pie.
It was a risk I was prepared to take, although if it didn't work out I knew I might have to come back and eat humble pie.

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