American pie
English
editEtymology
editApparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.
Adjective
editAmerican pie (comparative more American pie, superlative most American pie)
- Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
- 1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14:
- The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.