It's a form of laughing at ourselves about something we believed or predicted, and then realised we were embarrassingly wrong – like when I said England would win the football World Cup!
Arrive at the gate early and in style-do not run for your life only to be panting embarrassingly or even worse, hold the plane and make 200 people wait impatiently while you browse gadgets at Duty Free.
It was embarrassingly obvious now. If I'd been paying any attention at all, I'm sure I would have noticed the date on the posters that decorated the school buildings.
On the other hand, lead was easy to extract and work, and almost embarrassingly profitable to produce industrially, and tetraethyl lead did indubitably stop engines from knocking.
This is one of those dishes that we describe as embarrassingly simple, because, it is almost embarrassing to demonstrate just how simple, but, it tastes amazing.