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*American as apple pie
Cliché quintessential American. (*Also: as ~.) A small house with a white picket fence is supposed to be as American as apple pie.
See also: apple, pie

American dream

the idealistic notion that Americans are preoccupied with obtaining certain materialistic goals. The American dream of home ownership, a car in the garage, and a chicken in every pot started in the early thirties.
See also: dream

be as American as apple pie
to be typically American Country and western music is as American as apple pie.
See also: apple, pie

as American as apple pie
having qualities that are thought to be typical of the US or of the people of the US Blue jeans are as American as apple pie.
See also: apple, pie


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According to his successor, Cohen's credo represented the magazine's grand design: "To lead the family out of the desert of alienation in which it had been wandering for so long and into the promised land of democratic, pluralistic, prosperous America where it would live as blessedly in its Jewishness as in its Americanness.
"Though I've come to realize my Americanness is unconquerable, Zionism is no worm-eaten ideology to me," he writes.
In her critical work, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Morrison comments on "thematics of innocence" that typically define Americanness in literature.
 
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