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pie noun 1 the vulva US, 1981. 2 a woman as a sexual object US, 1975. 3 a person who is overweight. Probably from the chant 'who ate all the pies?' UK, 2003. 4 a pizza. An abbreviation of the rarely used, full 'pizza pie' US, 1997
idiompie► be in apple pie order► a piece/slice of the pie(as) easy as pie(also as easy as anything)spoken used in order to say that something is very easy:The test should be as easy as pie if you've managed to get enough driving practice.Buying a can of beans used to be as easy as anything, but now you have to consider sugar, additives, and salt content. —see also as easy as falling off a logeat humble pieto admit that you were wrong about something, especially when you must do this publicly and it is embarrassing:If Richards wants to rejoin the company, she will have to eat humble pie and ask them to take her back.You won't last long in competitive sport, unless you're prepared to eat humble pie occasionally.nice as pieused in order to say that someone is being very nice to you, especially when you did not expect them to be, or are not sure that they really like you:Bill was nice as pie to us, but I still felt uncomfortable around him.I can never tell what Gwen's thinking, although she seems nice as pie.pie in the skyused about an idea, plan etc that you think will never happen:Agnos insists the proposal for a new sports stadium is not pie in the sky.I'd like more art classes for younger students, but that's just pie in the sky to the school.pie-in-the-sky: AmE City council can't have any more pie-in-the-sky plans without the money to support them. —see also be a pipe dream
See:- (as) easy as pie
- (as) sweet as pie
- a piece of the pie
- American as apple pie
- apple pie order
- apple-pie order
- as American as apple pie
- as American as mom and apple pie
- as American as motherhood and apple pie
- be (as) easy as pie
- be as American as apple pie
- be as nice as pie
- be in apple-pie order
- be pie-eyed
- cow chip
- cut the pie up
- cutie pie
- easy as A, B, C
- easy as ABC/pie/falling off a log
- easy as pie
- eat crow
- eat crow/humble pie/dirt, to
- eat humble pie
- finger in every pie
- finger in every pie, to have a
- finger in the pie
- finger in the pie, have a
- get (something) in apple-pie order
- have (one's) finger in too many pies
- have a finger in every pie
- have a finger in the pie
- have a/(one's) finger in every pie
- have a/(one's) finger in the pie
- have finger in too many pies
- humble pie
- in apple-pie order
- mom and apple pie
- motherhood and apple pie
- nice as pie
- pie hole
- pie in the sky
- piece of the pie
- pie-eating grin
- pie-eyed
- promises are like pie crust(s): (easily made,) easily broken
- promises are like pie crust(s): (they are) made to be broken
- put (something) in apple-pie order
- Shut your cake hole!
- shut your pie hole
- slice of the pie
- slice the pie, to
- sweet as pie
- who ate all the pies
- word hole
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