a piece/slice/share of the pie

noun phrase

: a portion of a particular amount of money
The state needs to give public schools a larger piece of the pie.
He's the best player on the team and he wants a bigger slice of the pie.

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Another interpretation was that Moscow had allowed Baku to win the Karabakh war for now, but fully expecting a piece of the pie in return - and that piece would effectively restore Russian control over the trade route and its former colonies in Central Asia. — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025 And everybody else that was around just wanted a piece of the pie. — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 8 July 2025 His children weren’t just beneficiaries of his success, but active participants who were all getting a piece of the pie. — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 26 June 2025 More than $10 billion in incremental ad spend is expected to flow into U.S. retail media in 2025, with retailers and brands alike scrambling for a slice of the pie. — Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025 While entering a competitive global market requires time and money, not doing so means missing out on a slice of the pie. — Andrey Insarov, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 In fact, healthcare data has exploded since the rise of EHRs, and technology companies of all sizes are eager to get a piece of the pie—though perhaps not all in the same way. — Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.d., Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Statistics in the report show that last year, companies on average allocated 13.6% of their budgets to marketing, a piece of the pie that needs to be optimized. — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 Nowadays, everything from Call of Duty to Tetris has a version retrofitted to the trend; everyone wants a piece of the pie. — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025

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“A piece/slice/share of the pie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20piece%2Fslice%2Fshare%20of%20the%20pie. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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