- a baked dish of fruit or meat and/or vegetables with pastry on the bottom, sides and top
- a slice of apple pie
- a steak and kidney pie
- Help yourself to some more pie.
- What’s the filling in these pies?
- a pie dish
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- apple
- chicken
- meat
- …
- piece
- slice
- bake
- cook
- make
- …
- filling
- dish
- pan
- …
- in a/the pie
Word OriginMiddle English: probably the same word as pie, used in the naming of birds; the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See pie in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryas American as apple pie
- used to say that something is typical of America
as easy as anything/as pie/as ABC/as falling off a log
- (informal) very easy or very easily
- The whole procedure is as easy as ABC.
- Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log.
as nice as pie
- (informal) very kind and friendly, especially when you are not expecting it
eat humble pie
(North American English also eat crow)
- to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made
have a finger in every pie
- (informal) to be involved in a lot of different activities and have influence over them, especially when other people think that this is annoying
a piece/slice/share of the pie
(British English also a slice/share of the cake)
- a share of the available money or benefits that you believe you have a right to
- The company is demanding a larger slice of the corporate pie.
pie in the sky
- (informal) an event that somebody talks about that seems very unlikely to happen
- This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky.
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