swallow pride

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swallow one's pride

Fig. to forget one's pride and accept something humiliating. I had to swallow my pride and admit that I was wrong. When you're trying to master a new skill, you find yourself swallowing your pride quite often.

See also: pride, swallow

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Jennifer, North London MIRIAM'S VERDICT: Swallow pride and make peace I'm in no doubt what you should do. ADVICE; Dear Miriam by The Mirror (London, England) Our tough advice is to swallow pride and realise that destiny may lie in connecting up with the metropolis. Strength in numbers by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk but hey, it happens to all of us, so the best thing to do is swallow pride and vanity and ring up a auto towing company ASAP to get that motionless heap of your off the road as quickly as humanly possible. Auto Towing Need not Be A Nightmare by Christopher M. Luck / Automotive community			surge out surge up surpass in surprise surprise by surprise with surrender to surround with survival of the fittest susceptible to suspect suspect of suspend suspend by suspend from suspicion suss out sustain in swab swab down swab out swab out of swallow swallow down swallow hook, line, and sinker swallow pride swallow the bait swallow up swamp with swan swan song swap swap for swap notes swap with swarm swarm around swarm in swarm out of swarm over swarm through swarm with swath swathe swathe in swathe with sway sway back and forth sway from side to side sway to swear			SWALK SWALL Swallet Swallet swallow swallow swallow swallow swallow Swallow (bird) Swallow (bird) Swallow (bird) Swallow (bird) swallow apnea swallow buoy swallow dive swallow dive swallow dives swallow dives swallow down swallow down Swallow Falls State Park swallow float swallow hole swallow hole swallow holes swallow holes swallow hook, line, and sinker swallow one's teeth Swallow plover swallow pride swallow shrike Swallow Sidecars Ltd swallow syncope swallow syncope swallow syncope swallow tail swallow tail swallow tail swallow tail Swallow Tailed Moth swallow the bait swallow up swallow up swallow up Swallow warbler swallow wort Swallow Your Pride swallow-dive swallow-dive swallow-dived swallow-dived swallow-dives swallow-dives swallow-diving swallow-diving swallow-tailed swallow-tailed swallow-tailed coat Swallow-tailed duck Swallow-tailed Gull

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