[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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| pie 1 (pī) n.
[Middle English.] |
A preposterously optimistic goal: “The candidate says we can balance the budget by next year, but I think that's pie in the sky.”
pie in the sky
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pie in the sky
An 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."