PIE


Meaning of PIE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ paɪ ]

( pies)

1.

A pie consists of meat, vegetables, or fruit baked in pastry.

...a pork pie.

...apple pie and custard.

N-VAR

see also cottage pie , shepherd’s pie

2.

If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as pie in the sky , you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen.

The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky...

to eat humble pie: see humble

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