apple pie

 

noun

  • a pie made with apples.
  • [mass noun] North American used to represent a cherished ideal of homeliness: to say I’m fed up with the Olympics is like being against motherhood and apple pie

Phrases

apple-pie bed

a bed which, as a practical joke, has been made with one of the sheets folded back on itself so that a person’s legs cannot be stretched out.

apple-pie order

perfect order or neatness: everything was in apple-pie order

as American as apple pie

North American typically American in character: they have made violence as American as apple pie