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Helen Nguyen
2020-12-20 01:12
Swallow Your Pride informal verb phrase
I swallowed my pride and went to her home to apologize.
Although Chris was a manager of the big company, he swallowed his pride and accepted a low-paid job just to make ends meet.
Robert has the big ego, so I don't think he will swallow his pride to accept his mistake.
The verb "swallow" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Swallow as a meaning of putting up with something that is unpleasant dates back to the 1600s. Pride can also have more than one connotation. Pride can mean that a person is good at something and rightfully feels good about his or her ability. Alternatively, pride can be synonymous with arrogance. In the idiom swallow one’s pride, pride refers to arrogance.
A person suppresses his pride in order to adopt a more humble stance. He might do this out of necessity because he has no other option. It is also possible that he does this because he wants to be a better person, or to do the right thing.
The original location of this phrase was to swallow one’s spittle, and it denoted the suppression of anger or some other strong emotion. This is still the meaning today.
The phrase originate in the Bible, specifically in Job 7:19:
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Do you see anything wrong?
Something that makes spectators excited and delighted
The garden, full of colourful flowers is a joy to behold.
