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motherhood and apple pie en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of mom and apple pie.
    • As one newspaper columnist wryly observed, "Motherhood and apple pie, baseball and the flag — all may be subjects of controversy. But the environment is almost beyond debate these days. 2003, Deborah Lynn Guber, The grassroots of a green revolution: polling America on the environment, page 1:
    • The right to freedom of expression was not entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of "motherhood-and-apple-pie" opinions. Those opinions never needed protection. The right to freedom of expression was entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of unpalatable opinions, no matter how unpopular. 2015 June 5, Randall Richmond, “Montreal (City of) c. Nelson, 2015 QCCM 146”, in CanLII, retrieved 18 Jul 2021:
    • Why are you so critical of baseball? ... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie. 1974, Howard Cosell, Like it is, page 131:
    • ... those are hardly ideas anyone would disagree with: "It's motherhood and apple pie, or whatever the European equivalent of motherhood and apple pie is." 2008 November 15, “G-20 Summit: Little Action, Many Promises”, in BusinessWeek: