Meaning of motherhood and apple pie | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Why are you so critical of baseball? ... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie.”

“As one newspaper columnist wryly observed, "Motherhood and apple pie, baseball and the flag — all may be subjects of controversy. But the environment is almost beyond debate these days.”

“... those are hardly ideas anyone would disagree with: "It's motherhood and apple pie, or whatever the European equivalent of motherhood and apple pie is."”

“The right to freedom of expression was not entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of "motherhood-and-apple-pie" opinions. Those opinions never needed protection. The right to freedom of expression was entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of unpalatable opinions, no matter how unpopular.”

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