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To take a course like this is humiliating (3,6,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eat humble pie

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'a course like this is humiliating' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'to take' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'take' could be 'eat' (eating is a kind of taking) and 'eat' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'humblepie' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for eat humble pie that I've seen before include "Be forced to apologise" , "Make an abject apology" , "Admit one's mistakes" , "Abase oneself" , "Act meekly and apologetically" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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