Eat Humble Pie???What this word exactly means?

Question

And can u interpret this new for me?what is trying to tell about julia roberts.is it positive or negative meaning?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood's most highly paid actress Julia Roberts was panned by critics in her Broadway stage debut this year, but she may have won a few friends in New York at Sunday night's Tony Awards by eating humble pie.

Answer 1

Hi,

In this case it is a positive meaning. To eat humble pie means to humble yourself. Humble means someone who is being modest, and not showing off. So, the article is saying that people in New York liked it that Julia Roberts didn't show off.

However, eat humble pie can also have a negative meaning. For example, if I did something extremely silly and felt bad about it, I might say "Oh no, I'll have to eat humble pie now!"

Answer 2

To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error.

The expression derives from umble pie, which was a pie filled with liver, heart and other offal, especially of cow but often deer. These parts were known as umbles, and since they were considered inferior food, in medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people.

Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century. The similarity of the two words was probably a significant factor in the evolution of "eat humble pie" as an idiom.

As far as Julia Roberts is concerned, the remark is both positive & negative. Positive in that her remarks (seen as eating humble pie) may lead to the critics been less hard on her, and negative in that she somehow needs to atone for her work...

Answer 3

When you have made a serious error and need to acknowledge it humbly, it is highly probable that the expression you use to describe the process has something to do with food.

Humble pie is 'humility forced on someone, often under embarrassing conditions'.

Usually it means someone admits they were wrong about something, often in public, or maybe apologizes for something. Similar phrases include, "eating crow" and "having to eat your words" or "eat your hat".

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Answer 4

It means admitting you were wrong or made a mistake. When faced with an error in judgment or words and then having to stand before your peers, you will eat humble pie.

Answer 5

Being humbled is being brought back down to earth for example; saying or doing something and then being apologetic when proved wrong after the fact, it's like the term eating crow..

Answer 6

It means to humble yourself. No bragging, admitting some type of mistake, etc. It means to bring your nose back down out of the clouds like normal people.

Answer 7

In this case, it just means "acting humble".