Careful Words

pie (n.)

pie (v.)

pie (adv.)

  He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii.

No man's pie is freed

From his ambitious finger.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.