Definition of "apple-pie" []

• Informal Perfect; exemplary: put the room in apple-pie order. (adjective)
• Informal Of, relating to, or marked by values regarded as distinctively American: "Family, neighborhood, community are apple pie virtues, unassailable and unavoidable in political rhetoric” ( Ronald Brownstein). (adjective)

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• "• What price Nick Clegg's hopes that coalition politics will nurture motherhood and apple-pie consensus?"
• "The America I Used To Know ™ directed government spending toward the plaid-shirt apple-pie eating flag-waving nuclear families of the land."
• "I choose to ignore that fact and INSIST that apple-pie is an AMERICAN dish because I have a narrative to save!"