词组 | pie in the sky |
释义 | pie in the sky noun unattainable dreams US Often, “there’ll be pie in the sky when you die” denoting an illusory happy ever after; taken from a parody of the hymn “In the Sweet Bye and Bye”: “You will eat, bye and bye, / In that glorious land in the sky; / Work and pray, live on hay, / You’ll get pie in the sky when you die” by radical labour activist Joe Hill (aka Joel Haggstrom and Joseph Hillstrom), “The Preacher and the Slave”, 1911. Joe Hill was executed in Utah in 1915.
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