Exceptionally good.
1847. Let her alone, and in five minutes the storm will be over, and she as good as pie again.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 21.
1866. Now, although we hear it said of any young woman, that she is “as good as pie,” young women now-a-days differ from pie, in that their principal attraction is capillary.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxxi. 228 (April).
1878. Say, Fred Park, we’ve been awful good; good as pie, hain’t we?—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Happy Dodd,’ chap. xvii.
