eat humble pie

If someone eats humble pie, they admit that they have been wrong and apologize, especially in situations where this is humiliating or embarrassing for them.

The Queen's Press offered his resignation over his personal attack on the duchess. was forced to eat humble pie yesterday and publicly apologise to the duchess.

After their victory at Tottenham, Molby insisted, `The critics were too quick to give their verdict on us. We hope they'll be eating humble pie before the end of the season.'

Humble pie is sometimes used in other structures with a similar meaning.

Nigel Mansell's critics may be helping themselves to a slice of humble pie this morning the wake of the hard-won third place in yesterday's.

pie in the sky

If you describe an idea, plan, or promise as pie in the sky, you mean that it is very unlikely to happen.

Jimmy Knapp, the leader of the biggest railwaymen's union, promptly claimed that privatisation was now even more pie in the sky.

Ideally what I would like to see would be free childcare, but I think that's a bit pie in the sky at the moment.

You can also use pie-in-the-sky before a noun.

Changes are a real possibility. This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff.

Is it all just a pie-in-the-sky idea? It is certainly a major job, and not cheap.