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pie in the sky
pie 1 P0280900 (pī)n.1. A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.3. Informal A pizza.4. Something similar to or resembling pie: mud pie.5. A whole that can be portioned out: "That would ... enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).Idiom: pie in the sky An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.).
[Middle English.]
pie 2 P0280900 (pī)n. See magpie.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīca.]
pie 3 P0280900 (pī)n. A former unit of currency of India.
[Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā, quarter, from pāt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]
pie 4 P0280900 (pī)n. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
[Medieval Latin pīca.]
pie 5 P0280900 (pī)n. & v. Printing Variant of pi2.
PIEabbr. Proto-Indo-Europeanpie1 (paɪ)
n. 1. a pastry crust filled with fruit, meat, pudding, etc., and baked, often with a top crust. 2. a layer cake with a cream or custard filling: Boston cream pie. 3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie. 4. an activity or affair: I'm sure he had a finger in the pie. Idioms: pie in the sky, the illusory prospect of future benefits. [1275–1325; Middle English; of obscure orig.] pie3 (paɪ)
n., v.t. pied, pie•ing. pi 2 . PIE Proto-Indo-European. pie in the skyA wish or promise that is extremely unlikely to be fulfilled.Translationspie (pai) noun food baked in a covering of pastry. a steak/apple pie. 派餅 馅饼pie in the sky something good promised for the future but which one is not certain or likely to get. He says he will get a well-paid job but it's just pie in the sky. 渺茫的幸福，異想天開 渺茫的幸福，异想天开
pie in the sky
pie in the skyAn impossible, unlikely, or fanciful idea or plan. Often hyphenated. He keeps talking about how he'll move to Los Angeles to be a famous actor, but it's just pie in the sky if you ask me. If you'd spend more time working and less time coming up with these pie-in-the-sky fantasies, you might actually get somewhere in life!See also: pie, skypie in the sky 1. Fig. a future reward after death, considered as a replacement for a reward not received on earth. Don't hold out for pie in the sky. Get realistic. If he didn't hope for some heavenly pie in the sky, he would probably be a real crook. 2. Fig. having to do with a hope for a special reward. (This is hyphenated before a nominal.) Get rid of your pie-in-the-sky ideas! What these pie-in-the-sky people really want is money.See also: pie, skypie in the skyAn empty wish or promise, as in His dream of being hired as a sports editor proved to be pie in the sky. This expression was first recorded in 1911 in a rallying song of a union, the International Workers of the World (or "Wobblies"): "Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die." See also: pie, skypie in the sky COMMON If you describe an idea, plan, or promise as pie in the sky, you mean that it is very unlikely to happen. Targets set for oil production now look like pie in the sky. Ideally what I would like to see would be free childcare, but I think that's a bit pie in the sky at the moment. Note: You can also use pie-in-the-sky before a noun. Changes are a real possibility. This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff. Note: This expression comes from the song `The Preacher and the Slave' (1911) by Joe Hill, an American songwriter and workers' organizer: `You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie.)' See also: pie, skypie in the sky something that is agreeable to contemplate but very unlikely to be realized. informal This phrase comes from a 1911 song by the American labour leader Joe Hill ( 1879–1915 ), in which a preacher tells a slave: ‘Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die’.See also: pie, skyˌpie in the ˈsky (informal) ideas that are not practical; false hopes or promises: Most voters know that the big promises which politicians make before an election are just pie in the sky. ♢ He says he’s going to make a movie in Hollywood, but I think it’s all pie in the sky.This comes from a song written in 1911 by Joe Hill, who worked to improve the rights of workers in America. The song criticizes religion for creating false hopes in the poor:‘Work and pray, Live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.’See also: pie, skypie in the sky1. n. a reward; a special heavenly reward. If he didn’t hope for some heavenly pie in the sky, he would probably be a real crook. 2. mod. having to do with a hope for a special reward. (This is hyphenated before a nominal.) Get rid of your pie-in-the-sky ideas! See also: pie, sky pie in the sky An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.)See also: pie, skypie in the skyThe promise of the good life in a future that never arrives. The term comes from a rallying song of the International Workers of the World, or Wobblies, “The Preacher and the Slave” (1911), that may have been written by their martyred organizer, Joe Hill (he was killed by the police). It went, “You will eat, bye and bye, in the glorious land above the sky! Work and pray, live on hay, you’ll get pie in the sky when you die.” The Wobblies, of course, wanted their “pie” in the form of decent wages and working conditions, in this life. This sentiment was echoed by boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who was quoted as saying, “You don’t want no pie in the sky when you die, you want something here on the ground while you’re still around” (1978).See also: pie, skyEncyclopediaSeepieMedicalSeePIEFinancialSeePieSee PITS
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