🥧To eat humble pie
🔺Back in the 14th century, after hunting parties returned home, the lords and other important men were offered the finest cuts of meat, while men of lower social stature were offered the entrails of the animals.
🔺These entrails were known as “numbles,” a term that was shortened to “umbles” by the 15th century. Often, the “umbles” (pronounced as “humble”) were baked into pies and served to the low-class men who considered it a humiliation. That’s how the idiom “to eat humble pie” came about.
🔺Today, it means to accept that you are wrong and to apologize.
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🔺Back in the 14th century, after hunting parties returned home, the lords and other important men were offered the finest cuts of meat, while men of lower social stature were offered the entrails of the animals.
🔺These entrails were known as “numbles,” a term that was shortened to “umbles” by the 15th century. Often, the “umbles” (pronounced as “humble”) were baked into pies and served to the low-class men who considered it a humiliation. That’s how the idiom “to eat humble pie” came about.
🔺Today, it means to accept that you are wrong and to apologize.
#английский #funfact #humble_pie
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