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Apples in expressions often seem to be used as an equivalent for the word thing or person. Somebody can be described as a good apple, bad apple, or rotten apple, and New York City even becomes the Big Apple. In Spanish, to take a walk around the block is to dar una vuelta a la manzana (‘to walk around the apple’). In Cockney rhyming slang apples are stairs (after apples and pears) while round objects seem particularly susceptible to comparison, unsurprisingly: old apple for baseball, love apple for tomato (in archaic use), and that ‘projection at the front of the neck formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, often prominent in men’, otherwise known as the Adam’s apple (and, earlier, Adam’s morsel). More on Adam later…
Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity.
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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity.