pie

Word family

Related topics: Food

pie /paɪ/ S2 noun [countableC, uncountableU] → pi

DFfruit baked inside a pastry covering 水果馅饼，派

slice/piece of pie

Would you like another piece of apple pie?

想再来一块苹果派吗？

→4 See picture of 见图 DESSERT →5 see picture at 见图 dessert

2 British EnglishBrEDF meat or vegetables baked inside a pastry or potato covering 肉馅饼；蔬菜馅饼

I had steak and kidney pie with chips.

我吃了一份牛肉腰子馅饼加薯条。

3 slice/share/piece of the pie SHAREa share of something such as money, profits etc 〔钱、利润等的〕一份

The smaller companies want a bigger share of the pie.

那些较小的公司想多分一杯羹。

Examples from the Corpus

slice/share/piece of the pie• Virtually every academic institution, it seemed, wanted a piece of the pie.• Smaller capitalist countries are maneuvering to gain a bigger share of the pie.• That meant nearly one in five students was moderately to severely work-inhibited-a considerable slice of the pie.

4 pie in the sky PROBABLYsomething good that someone says will happen, but which you think is impossible or unlikely 空中楼阁，不大可能实现的允诺[建议]

Hope of a cure is just pie in the sky.

找到治疗方法的希望太过渺茫了。

→ mud pie , pie chart, → easy as pie at easy1(1), → eat humble pie at humble1(6), → have a finger in every pie at finger1(7), → be as nice as pie at nice(11)

Examples from the Corpus

pie in the sky• But that's all pie in the sky.• What used to be pie in the sky when you die has, quite rightly, become pie now, please.• Building a baseball field downtown is just pie in the sky right now.• Any talk of getting a reasonable response from the terrorists is just pie in the sky.• So much pie in the sky, she remembered thinking later.• Do not be deceived into throwing away a decent offer in pursuit of pie in the sky.• Eventual payment was promised at the rate of 5Op per deal, but this proved pie in the sky.• I was promised the pie in the sky by and by.

Examples from the Corpus

pie• On Monday night the club's members are looking forward to a pie and peas supper.• cherry pie• Should they compromise with Clinton over a piece of the tax-cut pie or hold out for the whole pie?• Often after lavish feasting, enormous pies would be brought to the banquet table.• Eat humble pie and get used to it mate.• Line 9-inch pie pan with 1 / 2 dough and arrange yam slices on it.• steak and kidney pie• A large number of young men reported eating white bread, chips, meat pies and sweets regularly.• a piece of pie• I had my finger in the policy pie, as well.• Lay on a pork pie buffet.

slice/piece of pie• With some of the money he got, he bought a piece of pie and a cup of coffee.• So I had a slice of pie and then he put the kettle on for coffee and went to the loo.• He lost his appetite for a girlfriend two seasons ago when she refused to share a piece of pie with him.

Origin pie

(1300-1400) Perhaps from pie “magpie” ( → MAGPIE); because the different things in a pie are like the different things a magpie collects

pie noun

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