put one's pride in one's pocket

present singular third person puts one's pride in one's pocket · participle present putting one's pride in one's pocket

1. To swallow one's pride.

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   A dog came to them one day and said "All people will die […] unless you give me some milk to drink out of your gourd and beer to drink through your straw […]" But the people laughed at the dog, and gave him some milk and beer to drink off a stool. The dog was angry at not being served in the same vessels as a human being, and though he put his pride in his pocket and drank the milk and beer from the stool, he went away in high dudgeon, saying, "All people will die"

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 55