(~s)
1.
A ~ consists of meat, vegetables, or fruit baked in pastry.
...a pork ~.
...apple ~ and custard.
N-VAR
see also cottage ~ , shepherd’s ~
2.
If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as ~ in the sky, you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen.
The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like ~ in the sky...
to eat humble ~: see humble
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR