0 a sweet food made from apples cooked under or inside pastry:
1 representing traditional and positive ideas of life in the US:
The protection of children is a ' ' motherhood and apple pie ' ' issue that few people could legitimately oppose.
We all support motherhood and apple pie and try to collect complete datasets.
For example, apple pie can be the name of any fruit pie and apple pie de cherry specifies the particular pie.
The interesting questions concern the relevance to intrinsic value of such things as truth, justice, happiness and apple pie (the answers: no, no, yes, no).
We do not go along with those who want more interdisciplinarity for its own sake, or who advocate it as a self-evident good, like motherhood or apple pie.
They are like motherhood and apple pie—one cannot possibly go wrong.
If he had announced that he was in favour of motherhood and apple pie, the document would have received widespread support.
They wanted to say what had been agreed previously—all those bland statements about apple pie and motherhood.
