单词 | apple pie |
释义 | apple pien. 1. A pie made with apples. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie vaunt1508 warden-pie1579 apple pie1589 gooseberry-pie1747 plum pie1747 huckleberry pie1751 apple dowdy1823 cobbler1859 lemon pie1909 lemon meringue1914 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K3v Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies. 1637 H. Goodcole Natures Cruell Step-dames 1 To intice the childe unto its slaughter, and to goe abroad with her, she provided..an Apple Pye, a Herring Pye..and other fruits. 1697 S. Sewall Diary 1 Oct. (1973) I. 378 For Dinner, very good Rost Lamb, Turkey, Fowls, Aplepy. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 181 I made shift to eat a bit of Apple-pie, and a little Custard. 1779 J. Abercrombie Brit. Fruit-gardener 256 Quinces are valued principally only..for stewing, baking, making marmalade, and to enrich the flavour of Apple-pies. 1828 Yankee May 147/1 A dessert of apple-pie and cheese. 1871 A. C. Day Knickerbocker Life (1897) 213 The Yankee Thanksgiving, with its turkey, cranberry sauce, mince, pumpkin, apple pie, and cider. 1941 Times 29 Mar. 2/4 For 1s. I had roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, and cabbage, and apple pie and custard. 2005 D. Cowie Owen Noone & Marauder 69 We both ordered Big Mac meals plus apple pies, which we scarfed down in about ten minutes. 2. More fully apple pie plant. Great willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum, which has pink flowers with creamy-white stigmas; also called codlins-and-cream. Now English regional.In quot. 1999: hemp agrimony, Eupatorium cannabinum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun] willow-herb1578 bindweed nightshade1597 enchanter's nightshade1597 rosebay1597 willow1597 French willow1601 willow-flower1633 rose withy1650 codlings-and-cream1670 willow weed1741 gooseberry fool1785 epilobium1809 onagrad1846 cherry-pie1857 apple pie plant1858 slink-weed1858 fiddle-grass1878 epilobe1883 satin flower1891 1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 164 Willow-herb, Codlins and Cream, Apple-Pie-Plant... Epilōbium. 1859 L. H. Grindon Manch. Flora 282 A noble and conspicuous flower..with a smell of baked apples, whence it [sc. great crimson willow-herb] is often called, in the country, ‘Apple pie’. 1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 52 Willow-herb..Applepie Plant. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 14 Apple-pie, the Great Willow-herb, so called from the smell of the flowers. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 196 The rosy and white combination in the flowers..may have suggested the name Codlins-and-cream, which in turn suggested other fruit names, Apple-pie, Gooseberry-pie, and Cherry-pie. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 10 Apple-pie, hemp agrimony..in Norfolk, but the Rev Edward Gepp found that in his part of Essex, not far from Dunmow, it was the great willowherb. Phrases (as) American as apple pie (originally U.S.): typically or traditionally American; intrinsic to or emblematic of American culture. ΚΠ 1924 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 2 June 6/4 (advt.) New Lestz Suits that are as American as apple pie. 1966 T. Lehrer National Brotherhood Week (song) in Tom Lehrer's Second Song Bk. (1968) 10 All of my folks hate all of your folks, It's American as apple pie. 1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 17 May 14 Baseball is as American as apple pie, so it was embarrassing when Taiwan Little League teams outslugged, outpitched and outfielded the best American teams. 1986 Listener 17 Apr. 22/3 The ‘frequent-flyer bonus scheme’ is as American as apple-pie. 2004 M. Torgoff Can't find my Way Home 1 Drugs have become as American as apple pie. Compounds C1. apple-pie bed n. a bed which, as a practical joke, has been made with one of the sheets folded back on itself, so it is impossible for a person to get into it. [The suggestion that the expression shows a folk-etymological alteration of French nappes pliées ‘folded linen’, ‘folded layers’ is unnecessary to explain the use in English, and apparently overlooks the fact that French nappe ordinarily denotes a tablecloth but not a bed-sheet.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax > of a particular kind grubbing1679 apple-pie bed1781 booby trap1846 turnip-ghost1863 whoopee cushion1931 hot foot1934 water bomb1947 Chinese fire drill1980 1781 J. Woodforde Diary (1924) I. 302 Had but an indifferent night of Sleep, Mrs. Davie and Nancy made me up an Apple Pye Bed last night. 1850 R. Reece Whittington, Junior, & Sensation Cat ii. 21 She spoilt our rest by making apple-pie beds. 1889 Standard 3 Aug. 5/2 The servants who, to begin with, thought nothing more amusing than the young gentleman's apple-pie beds and booby-traps, have reached the verge of mutiny. 1917 A. Waugh Loom of Youth iv. vii. 308 His dormitory made him apple-pie beds. 2005 South Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 19 Sept. 6 Her Welsh accent was mocked, her personal possessions would disappear and she would often face an ‘apple pie’ bed. apple-pie order n. perfect order or neatness. [The motivation for the expression is unclear. It has been suggested that it shows a folk-etymological alteration of various different expressions (e.g. a supposed *Cap-a-pie order , or French nappes pliées (see apple-pie bed n.)), but none of these is supported by any documentary evidence.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement > complete or thorough apple-pie order1780 1780 T. Pasley Jrnl. 12 May in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 87 Their Persons Clean and in apple-Pie order on Sundays. 1813 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) IV. 131 The children's garden is in apple-pie order. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. viii. 142 Put the craft a little into apple-pie order. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xi. 103 The boat-pullers and steerers have..put their boats in apple-pie order. 1994 Eng. Hist. Rev. 109 1225 For Mann, history is ‘a patterned mess’, not something reducible to apple-pie order. C2. attributive. Embodying traditional values (esp. motherhood and domesticity) in a positive manner; simple and wholesome, esp. in a way regarded as exemplifying particularly American ideals (cf. motherhood and apple-pie n. at motherhood n. 1d); (hence also) thoroughly or typically American, esp. in apple-pie American (cf. as American as apple pie at Phrases). In later use frequently ironic or with pejorative connotations. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] > wholesome goodOE wholeOE wholesomec1175 whole?c1225 hailsome1372 healthfulc1384 haila1393 halea1400 salutairec1450 salutary1490 wholesome1549 salutiferec1550 salutiferous?c1550 healthy1552 healthsomea1563 salubrious1659 apple pie1960 1960 Los Angeles Times 4 Jan. iii. 12/7 A ‘look’ is every woman's aim... ‘For Ginger Rogers, it's an apple-pie American look.’ 1962 John o' London's 19 Apr. 371/2 Likeable beer-drinking chaps..with resplendent memories of apple-pie mums. 1963 Time 14 June 54/2 Viewers like his apple-pie accent. 1978 Washington Post 1 Mar. a22/5 There were some who were irritated by his old-fashioned, apple-pie patriotism. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 July 9/1 The proud mother basking in the glow of her apple-pie family. 1991 Maclean's 17 June 56/3 His apple-pie sincerity seems misplaced. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 2 Dec. b1 The developers intend to build a kind of apple-pie American paradise a la Norman Rockwell on 49,000 acres of prime land a few miles from Disney World. 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