pie : Idioms & Phrases

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apple pie

  • noun pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar
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Ap"ple pie`
Definitions
  1. A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.
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Apple-pie bed

  • a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare.
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Apple-pie order

  • perfect order or arrangement. Colloq. Halliwell.
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blueberry pie

  • noun pie containing blueberries and sugar
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boston cream pie

  • noun layer cake filled with custard
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By cock and pie

  • an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." Shak.
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cap-a-pie

  • adverb at all points from head to foot
    from head to toe.
    • he was armed cap-a-pie
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cottage pie

  • noun a dish of minced meat topped with mashed potatoes
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cow pie

  • noun fecal matter of a cow
    cowpie.
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custard pie

  • noun a prop consisting of an open pie filled with real or artificial custard; thrown in slapstick comedies
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deep-dish pie

  • noun a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
    cobbler.
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Dirt pie

  • clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684).
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French pie

  • French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color) (Zoöl.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); called also wood pie.
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kidney pie

  • noun like steak and kidney pie but without steak
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lemon meringue pie

  • noun pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue
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maggot-pie

Mag"got-pie` noun
Definitions
  1. A magpie. Obs. Shak.
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magot-pie

Mag"ot-pie` noun
Definitions
  1. A magpie. Obs. Shak.
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meat pie

  • noun pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough
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mince pie

  • noun pie containing mincemeat
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Mince" pie`
Definitions
  1. A pie made of mince-meat.
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mud pie

  • noun a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie
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pecan pie

  • noun pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs
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perigord pie

Per"i*gord pie`
Etymology
From Périgord, a former province of France.
Definitions
  1. A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.
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pie chart

  • noun a circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
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Pie crust

  • noun pastry used to hold pie fillings
    pie crust.
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  • the paste of a pie.
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pie plant

  • noun long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
    Rheum rhaponticum; Rheum rhabarbarum; garden rhubarb; Rheum cultorum.
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pie shell

  • noun pastry used to hold pie fillings
    pie crust.
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pie-dog

  • noun ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India
    pye-dog; pariah dog.
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pie-eyed

  • adjective satellite very drunk
    pixilated; sozzled; soaked; tight; soused; sloshed; slopped; blotto; plastered; crocked; besotted; cockeyed; squiffy; wet; fuddled; smashed; blind drunk; stiff; loaded; pissed.
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pizza pie

  • noun Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
    pizza.
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pork pie

  • noun small pie filled with minced seasoned pork
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Pudding pie

  • a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630).
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pumpkin pie

  • noun pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
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red-veined pie plant

  • noun Asian herb (Himalayas)
    Rheum australe; Indian rhubarb; Himalayan rhubarb; Rheum emodi.
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rhubarb pie

  • noun pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar
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sea pie

Sea" pie
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Hæmatopus.
Sea" pie`
Definitions
  1. A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.
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shepherd's pie

  • noun pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven
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shoofly pie

  • noun open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
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squash pie

  • noun similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin
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steak and kidney pie

  • noun steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked
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tamale pie

  • noun a meat mixture covered with cornbread topping that resembles a Mexican dish
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To eat humble pie

  • to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.
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Tree pie

  • (Zoöl.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
  • (Zoöl.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus Dendrocitta. The tree pies are allied to the magpie.
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umble pie

Um"ble pie`
Definitions
  1. A pie made of umbles. See To eat humble pie, under Humble.
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Wall pie

  • (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue.
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Warden pie

  • a pie made of warden pears. Obs.
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Wood pie

  • (Zoöl.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  • . (Zoöl.) See French pie, under French.
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