A pie consists of meat, vegetables, or fruit baked in pastry. a pork pie. apple pie and custard. see also cottage pie, shepherd's pie
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. Proto-Indo-European. A monetary unit formerly in use in India and Pakistan. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation. Variant of pi
a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Story (^^) or something like cake made of boiled rice painted in the sky (99/10/30) No matter how impresssive a plan may sound, ultimately it's a pie in the sky without your leadrship Devising a strategy is not a challenge What counts more is flawless implementation of the strategy Planning is only 5% of the journey 95% is implementation (Nikkei,99/10/25)