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Hi Faye, I'm glad you've come to watch me train for the pie-eating competition. I'm going to be the new champion.

I'm so sure of it.

No one's going to beat me. I'm the best.

How can you be so sure you're going to win?

Because I love eating.

But you're so thin. I can't imagine 10 of these huge pies fitting inside your skinny body.

Don't worry, they will. I'll eat them all and very quickly.

So let me start the clock. Are you ready? Yes. Here we go. Okay right. Let's try some of these. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. You lovely. Lovely. Well two down eight to go but more. That's four now five. Oh

and no no I can't eat anymore. Are you sure? Oh yes, I'm full up. If you can't finish these you're going to have to eat humble pie?

Humble Pie? Humble Pie? Pie?

I won't have any room for any type of pie.

I'm stuffed!

Oh, but I see what you mean.

I have to admit that I was wrong when I said I could eat all those pies.

Yes. In English, when we say someone has to eat humble pie,

we mean they have to admit they can't do something they boasted about. It's a bit humiliating for them.

Yes, that person has to act in an apologetic way. To eat humble pie is today's

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