Sentences with phrase «old piece of pie»

Reading it was like having my mouth set for a big old piece of pie and getting a flaky little pastry instead.

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By saving a bigger piece of their income pie in the years leading up to retirement, those age 50 and older can help make up for lost time.

If you get distracted and lose that window of opportunity, your cute - as - pie, cherry - patterned diaper cover quickly turns into a sad and ugly old piece of baby wear.

As they grow older, children behave less like Ernie and more like Bert — although they are not always happy when others get more, they would much rather give the bigger piece of pie to others than waste it, as long as the decision about who gets the smaller piece of pie comes from them rather than someone else.

The album winds down with an anthem about being an American, whose sound evokes Prince's «Let's Go Crazy,» with lyrics like «love me for who I am,» and «cross my heart and hope to die, I'm a big old piece of American pie.»

As to younger lawyers wanting a bigger piece of the pie, McEwen argues that today's firms are far better off than those of decades ago, which kept older lawyers on without any detriment to younger partners» earnings.