Apr 20, 2010 00:09
14 yrs ago
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Russian term
пирожки, пирог
Russian to English
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Slang
такие вот дела...боюсь, что будет, там же не пирожки а гигантский пирог
Proposed translations
(English)
3 | pie | palilula (X) |
Proposed translations
1 day 21 hrs
pie
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печёное изде́лие
1. A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
3. A whole that can be shared: "That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).
Slang (I think this is what you are looking for):
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/PIE
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Note added at 1 day21 hrs (2010-04-21 21:46:15 GMT)
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pie in the sky
1. Fig. a future reward after death, considered as a replacement for a reward not received on earth. Don't hold out for pie in the sky. Get realistic. If he didn't hope for some heavenly pie in the sky, he would probably be a real crook.
2. Fig. having to do with a hope for a special reward. (This is hyphenated before a nominal.) Get rid of your pie-in-the-sky ideas! What these pie-in-the-sky people really want is money.
1. A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
3. A whole that can be shared: "That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).
Slang (I think this is what you are looking for):
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/PIE
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Note added at 1 day21 hrs (2010-04-21 21:46:15 GMT)
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pie in the sky
1. Fig. a future reward after death, considered as a replacement for a reward not received on earth. Don't hold out for pie in the sky. Get realistic. If he didn't hope for some heavenly pie in the sky, he would probably be a real crook.
2. Fig. having to do with a hope for a special reward. (This is hyphenated before a nominal.) Get rid of your pie-in-the-sky ideas! What these pie-in-the-sky people really want is money.
Example sentence:
Pie in the sky.
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