Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pie

(pies) 1. A pie consists of meat, vegetables, or fruit baked in pastry. ...a pork pie. ...apple pie and custard. N-VAR see also cottage pie, shepherd’s pie 2. If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as pie in the sky, you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen. The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky... to eat humble pie: see humble PHRASE: usu v-link PHR PIE CHART (pie charts) A pie chart is a circle divided into sections to show the relative proportions of a set of things. N-COUNT