- - Retracted one's words
- - Admitted an error
- - Admitted to an embarrassing error
- - Had to admit an error
- - Suffered a blow to one's pride
- - Admitted one's mistake
- - Accepted what one fought against
- - Owned up to one's errors
- - Was forced to admit a mistake
- - Had to retract a statement, perhaps
- - Was forced to retract one's words.
- - Swallowed one's pride
- - Admitted a humiliating goof
- - Was humbled publicly
- - Admitted wrongness
- - Had a heaping helping of humility
- - Partook of humble pie
- - Dined on humble pie
- - Had a helping of humble pie
- - Admitted fault, informally
- - Was duly humiliated
- - Humbled oneself, perhaps
- - Had a slice of humble pie
- - Recanted in embarrassment
- - Made a humiliating retraction
- - Accepted humiliation
- - Suffered humiliation, informally
- - Expressed regret
- - Was smug no longer
- - Mouthed a retraction
- - Accepted a humiliating defeat
- - Retracted reluctantly
- - Recanted, in a way
- - Backed down
- - Was humbled
- - Suffered humiliation
- - Was humiliated
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