pie
[noun]
Synonyms: snap, breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, kid stuff, picnic, pipe, pushover, setup

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

pie S2 /paɪ/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Perhaps from pie 'magpie' ( ⇒ magpie); because the different things in a pie are like the different things a magpie collects]

1. fruit baked inside a pastry covering
slice/piece of pie
Would you like another piece of apple pie?

2. British English meat or vegetables baked inside a pastry or potato covering:
I had steak and kidney pie with chips.

3. slice/share/piece of the pie a share of something such as money, profits etc:
The smaller companies want a bigger share of the pie.

4. pie in the sky something good that someone says will happen, but which you think is impossible or unlikely:
Hope of a cure is just pie in the sky. ⇒ 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)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

pie
noun
ADJ. apple, meat, etc. | mud The children are making mud pies in the garden.
QUANT. piece, slice
VERB + PIE eat, have | bake, cook, make
PIE + NOUN filling | dish
PREP. in a/the ~ What's the filling in these pies?
 ⇒ Special page at FOOD

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

pie
̈ɪpaɪ
See: eat humble pie , finger in the pie , pie in the sky , sweetie pie

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲