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eat humble pie
idiom informal(US alsoeat crow)
to admit that you were wrong: 认错;道歉
After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie.他吹嘘他的公司可以压倒业内最好的企业，但之后，他就不得不承认言过其实了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
concede
confess
hand
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back
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