| 单词 | etc as pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie a. As the type of something pleasurable, in (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 1855 Which: Right or Left? 184 For nearly a week afterwards, the domestics observed significantly to each other, that Miss Isabella was as ‘nice as pie!’ 1857 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Serm. 1st Ser. 21 Let her alone and in five minutes the storm will be over, and she as good as pie again. 1877 Address in ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 263 Mr. Longfellow smiles as sweet as pie. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 28 You're always as polite as pie to them. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 151 I ran into him upstreet this afternoon and he was meek as pie. 1952 M. Laski Village vi. 109 She was as sweet as pie, said she was awfully sorry. 1995 J. Miller Voxpop iii. 65 Another guy who seemed nice as pie in his letters..turned out to be a paranoid piss-head. easy (also simple, etc.) as pie b. easy (also simple, etc.) as pie. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > easy to do or accomplish eathlyc1000 lightOE eathc1175 easyc1380 facile1484 good1490 easy (also simple, etc.) as pie1890 untroublesome1894 potty1899 sitting1932 cake1968 slow-pitch1981 renable1995 1890 Judge 1 Feb. 272/1 I thought 'twould be easy as pie Ketchin' up city ways. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/2 I told him what I was up against. ‘All right’, says he, taking it easy as pie, all as a matter of course. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xix. 156 ‘How do you propose to make your entry?’..‘Easy as pie. Odd-job man... They always want odd-job men.’ 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xii. 210 He's knocked out... Simple as pie. No cutting or stealing keys or hiding blunt instruments or telling lies. 1959 C. Bush Case of Careless Thief vii. 87 It's in the bag... Everything we wanted and easy as pie. 2007 J. T. Edge New Encycl. Southern Culture VII. 223/2 The evolution of pie crusts..could be one reason fledgling bakers laugh at the notion that something is ‘easy as pie’. < as lemmas |
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