| 词条 | Humble pie |
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To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to face humiliation and subsequently apologize for a serious mistake. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies. EtymologyThe expression derives from umble pie, a pie filled with the chopped or minced parts of a beast's 'pluck' – the heart, liver, lungs or 'lights' and kidneys, especially of deer but often other meats. Umble evolved from numble (after the French nomble), meaning 'deer's innards'.[1][2] It has occasionally been suggested that 'umbles' were considered inferior food and that in medieval times, the pie was often served to lower-class people, possibly following speculation in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there is little evidence for this.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} Early references in cookbooks such as Liber Cure Cocorum present a grand dish with exotic spices. Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Since the sound "h" is dropped in many dialects, the phrase was rebracketed as "humble pie".{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} While "umble" is now gone from the language, the phrase remains, carrying the fossilized word as an idiom. See also
References1. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211233539/http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary/entry?id=2995 |date=December 11, 2007 }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gourmetbritain.com/encyclo_entry.php?item=5582 |title=Encyclopedia - Umble Pie |publisher=Gourmet Britain |date= |accessdate=2013-04-12}} External links{{Wiktionary}}
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