kidney pie
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- noun
- /ˈkɪdni paɪ/
- UK
:
pastel de riñón
- I'd like one beef and kidney pie, a half a loaf of bread, and one of those cherry tarts.
- steak and kidney pie
- beef and kidney pie
I had a little bit of kidney pie and chicken Curry and some other weird thing.
- I had a little bit of kidney pie and chicken Curry and some other weird thing.
Examples
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Mattie's made you a beef and kidney pie.
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Steak and kidney pie and oxtail and roast beef.
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Do you like kidney pie?
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And beef and kidney pie
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It's steak and kidney pie.
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She was excited about a kidney pie she made.
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You may want to try the steak kidney pie... followed by the apple crumble.
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Sitting in front of a half-eaten steak and kidney pie.
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Steak and kidney pie.
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I had a delicious kidney pie for dinner last night and it was full of flavor.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'kidney' modifies 'pie' to indicate a pie made with kidneys; the meaning is directly derivable from the constituent words. The ingredient-type + food pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows 'kidney' and 'pie' would readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Kidney pie comes from old British cooking: it is a kidney (the organ from an animal) baked inside a pie. So today kidney pie means a 'savory pie filled with beef kidneys'.