motherhood and apple pie

Fig. an often parodied sentiment expressed about allegedly quintessential elements of American home life. Fred is so old-fashioned. Everything about old times is good to him. He's all motherhood and apple pie.

See also: and, apple, pie

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Advocating support for the private sector is like extolling the virtues of motherhood and apple pie.

A true public-private partnership

Vision 2019 reads like a motherhood and apple pie wish list for the future.

Fooled him not

It attracted widespread public support, in a motherhood and apple pie sort of way, since no one dared to suggest that the logistics of actually delivering might prove costly and difficult.

THE BRIMINGHAM POST: Early pledges

It's like undermining motherhood and apple pie," Rep.

"Like undermining motherhood and apple pie": why are California Dems in local government embracing eminent domain abuse?

Making a generalization like that is the same as if someone said, ``That is why all right wingers hate motherhood and apple pie.

PUBLIC FORUM

I know that some will say that I am proposing to tax motherhood and apple pie, but it is not parents and children who benefit from zero rating at the moment, but retailers.

EURO PLANS TO TAX CHILDREN'S CLOTHES

It's a motherhood and apple pie project that will bring joy to everyone in the city.

Pier A gets go ahead

If both motherhood and apple pie are a thing of the past since you became an empty-nester, loosen up now and then and take Marie Antoinette's advice.

Let them eat cake

I am proposing to tax motherhood and apple pie,and as we all know,motherhood and apple pie are sacrosanct'' said Mr Bolkestein.

EU renews call for tax on children's clothes

In short, as the latest manifestation of this deeply ingrained Puritan heritage, environmentalism is as American as motherhood and apple pie.

In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology

No one can speak against it, it is a motherhood and apple pie concept and this means that no one much wants to speak for it either.