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If your host cooks you a nice hot dinner, you’re probably welcome. If he gives you yesterday’s leftovers—for example, a cold shoulder of mutton—then he probably wishes you hadn’t come around. It could have been worse, though—he could have made you eat humble pie. Humble pie is made using the umbles or innards of a deer.
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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