Is ‘Pie in the Sky’ Just a Dream? — VOA Learning English
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examples, notes on usage, and sometimes, we use them in short conversations.
Today we talk about the sweet dish at the end of a meal -- the dessert. One of the most famous kinds of dessert is pie. With a buttery crust and sweet fillings like apple, berries, or banana cream, a well-made pie is a dreamy food, indeed.
And that gives us the expression pie in the sky.
Imagine a perfect pie coming down to you from the sky. That is like a dream. And a pie in the sky is a dream, too.
Anything described as pie-in-the-sky is fun to daydream about but is very…
Торкнись будь-якого слова — переклад з’явиться одразу, а слово ляже в твою добірку разом із реченням.