If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie,” both phrases of which involve animals — or do they? We’ll uncover the dirty little secret underneath the pastry dough in “to eat humble pie” but explain why you want to eat humble pie (or dirt) instead of crows. 

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