cut the pie
Example Sentences
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In my head, it was easy to cut the pie in half, and then in half again, and again: two, four, or eight pieces.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2019
The pastry was so flaky and delicate that when I went to cut the pie in half to take some photos, a standard butter knife cut cleanly through without denting or collapsing the dome.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2012
Most enterprisers expand frenetically, cut the pie in a quick, cold-eyed killing, then move on to bigger things.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of co'se I must 'a' had 'em on when I cut the pie, or I couldn't 've saw it so distinc'—'an I finished that slice a-settin' down talkin' to her at the sewin'-machine.
From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
If mamma cut the pie into 4 pieces and gave each person a piece, how many persons did she have for dinner if she used 4 whole pies for dessert?
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
