{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Glossary","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary","author_name":"Glossary","author_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/","title":"Humble pie - Definition of Humble pie","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8lhXB3J2j8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/humble-pie\/\">Humble pie<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/humble-pie\/embed\/#?secret=8lhXB3J2j8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Humble pie&#8221; &#8212; Glossary\" data-secret=\"8lhXB3J2j8\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Although the expression to eat humble pie only dates back to the early nineteenth century, the actual dish called humble pie is ancient. A humble pie contained the parts of a deer known as the umbles: the heart, liver, and intestines. Although once prized by hunters as a revitalizing food, umbles fell in esteem as hunters lost their honoured role in society and became mere servants of the queasy aristocracy. Accordingly, food made from umbles, such as umble pie, came to be seen as fit only for inferior social classes, a perception that prompted people to make a connection between the word umble and the unrelated word humble. Indeed, in those British dialects that drop hs, the two words would have been pronounced identically. Eventually the association between umble and humble caused the name of the food to be respelt as humble, and the act of eating humble pie came to be synonymous with humiliation. The word umble, by the way, had undergone respelling even before it became humble. Before the sixteenth century, the word umble was actually the word numble; the initial n was likely lost because spoken phrases like a numble pie could easily be misinterpreted as an umble pie. Numble, in turn, was derived in the thirteenth century from the Latin word lumbulus, meaning a little loin. In fact, the words loin and lumbago\u2014a rheumatic condition afflicting the lower back\u2014also derive from the word lumbulus, making them cousins of the humble in humble pie."}