eating humble pie

It was not by eating humble pie, fellow, that I have grown to what I am.

I have already granted that, and I am eating humble pie in asking for an explanation.

He would have liked his people to have a spirit and had waked up to the sense of their perpetually eating humble-pie.

After the break came, we went the limit in the way of eating humble pie to get you back again.

In such a coterie as this "eating humble-pie" is done only at the muzzle of a "shootin'-iron."