[pahy] 
| 1. | a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie. |
| 2. | a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate 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: He has his finger in the political pie too. |
| 5. | pizza. |
| 6. | easy as pie, extremely easy or simple. |
| 7. | nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie. |
| 8. | pie in the sky,
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| eas·y (ē'zē) adj. eas·i·er, eas·i·est
[Middle English esi, from Old French aaisie, past participle of aaisier, to put at ease : a-, to (from Latin ad-, ad-) + aise, ease; see ease.] eas'i·ness n. Synonyms: These adjectives mean requiring little effort or posing little if any difficulty. Easy applies to tasks that require little effort: "The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible" (Peter M. Latham). |
easy as pie
Also, easy as falling or rolling off a log. Capable of being accomplished with no difficulty, as in This crossword puzzle is easy as pie. The first term presumably alludes to consuming pie (since making pie requires both effort and expertise). The variants most likely allude to standing on a log that is moving downstream, a feat in which falling off is a lot easier than remaining upright. Mark Twain had it in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889): "I could do it as easy as rolling off a log." The first colloquial term dates from the early 1900s, the colloquial variants from the 1830s. For a synonym, see piece of cake.