Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Grammar: Idioms

Question:

What is the meaning of the idiom "Eat humble pie"?

Options:

To earn praise

Modest behaviour

To have a decent living

Suffer humiliation

Correct Answer:

Suffer humiliation

Explanation:

Ans 4

To eat humble pie means make a humble apology and accept humiliation, to admit that one was wrong or accept that one has been defeated. E.g They had to eat humble pie when the rumors they were spreading were proved false.