pie1
• noun a baked dish of savoury or sweet ingredients encased in or topped with pastry. — PHRASES pie in the sky informal a pleasant prospect that is very unlikely to be realized. — ORIGIN probably the same word as obsolete pie ‘magpie’, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.
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