pie plant
US informal
noun
1Garden rhubarb, Rheum× hybridum.
2Canaigre or wild rhubarb, Rumex hymenosepalus, which is used like garden rhubarb.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Youth's Magazine (New York).
- a slap on the wrist
- (as) large as life
- asleep
- asleep at the wheel (or switch)
- ASLEF
- AS level
- a slice of life
- a slice of the action
- (as) light as a feather
- (as) like as not
- as likely as not
- a slip of a ——
- as long as
- as long as one's (or someone's) arm
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs
- (as) mad as a hatter
- (as) mad as a March hare
- (as) mad as a meat axe
- a small fortune