Peter left school early at 16 to join hit-making bands The Herd and Humble Pie.

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"Today is about me quite rightly eating humble pie, " said Ridsdale on Thursday.

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It may be asking too much to expect the policy experts to eat a little humble pie.

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It helped that in Berlin Mr Samaras swallowed a sizeable chunk of humble pie before Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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The Kirchners are unlikely to nibble humble pie unless Argentina is starving, which it is not nor is it likely to for the foreseeable future.

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Instead, it tabled its own (almost identical) one, challenging Mr Prodi to eat humble pie by voting for it days before the first Italian soldiers were due to go.

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Deciding to fire one of your investment managers which often times means eating humble pie as well as financial losses is indeed your most difficult job as an investor.

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They consume sickening quantities of humble pie.

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