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View synonyms for swallow one's pride

swallow one's pride



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Humble oneself, as in She decided to swallow her pride and apologize . This idiom employs swallow in the sense of “refrain from expressing,” a usage dating from the early 1600s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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