piece of the pie
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3.4
- idiom
- Informal
- The insurance industry is now in full-battle mode, defending their piece of the pie.
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Watch on YouTubeSo we need to, to, to limit the, the pieces of the pie anyone gets so that everyone can have a fair and, and just piece of the pie.
- So we need to, to, to limit the, the pieces of the pie anyone gets so that everyone can have a fair and, and just piece of the pie.
- And you want to have a lot of sort of equal sized pieces of the pie so that when something fails the whole pie, it doesn't look like the end of the pie.
- But Uncle Sam wants a piece of your gains, and both the federal government and a handful of states will take a piece of the pie you just earned.
- Dilution is when your piece of the pie gets smaller because there are more people to share the pie with.
- Now entrepreneurs are oftentimes castigated because they are, you know, they they're taking too big a piece of the pie.
- More of us can get more of a piece of the pie than ever.
- And so it's your, you're, you're competing with a lot of people for a very little, very, very little pie piece of the pie.
Examples
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Homeowners are just one piece of the pie of this whole crisis.
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More of us can get more of a piece of the pie than ever.
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Start with the biggest piece of the pie and work on that first.
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All I want is a piece of the pie.
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The company would get its piece of the pie from the resources.
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Joe is doing everything he can to protect his piece of the pie at the beginning.
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There are always new ideas showing up on the Internet; everyone wants a piece of the pie.
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The smaller guys wanted a piece of the pie.
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"Everyone deserves a piece of the pie."
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Everyone in the community is hopeful that they will receive their piece of the pie when the profits from the new project are shared.
Synonyms
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1.0
A part broken or cut from something larger, like a bit of fruit
667
1.6
A part of money, food or property given to someone
381
4.2
A share of money from a sale or business
76
3.6
A part of something, like money or influence
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4.4
A share in an activity that may bring money or excitement
Antonyms
How Much
- Informal
20
3.8
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4.2
- Informal
10
3.4
667
1.6
76
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
piece + of + the + pie
The meaning 'a share' is directly derivable from combining 'piece' (a portion) with 'pie' (the whole being divided); the phrase literally denotes a portion of something, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the figurative sense. This partitive/metaphorical mapping is common cross-linguistically and follows a straightforward compositional pattern rather than an arbitrary idiom.
Etymology
Piece of the pie comes from the simple image of a real pie on a table being cut so everyone can take a piece of the pie. That's why it now means 'a share' of something valuable, like money or benefits.