apple pie

Definitions

1. A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
   countable, uncountable
2. Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. Any of various willowherbs.
   UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play⟳ about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.”

“Hanks has often been called our generation's answer⟳ to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.”

“She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.”

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