Fruit Salad: apple, banana, cherry, grape, orange, lemon
Idioms with apple
Idiom | Explanation | Example |
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it’s apples and oranges | it’s pointless to compare two fundamentally different or opposing things | You can’t compare Max’s job with Emma’s; he’s a footballer and she’s a brain surgeon, it’s apples and oranges. |
the apple of my eye | favourite or most beloved person | Silvia’s little grandson is the apple of her eye, they spend every day together. |
the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree | children grow up to be similar to their parents | —Clara is studying medicine, she wants to be a doctor like her mum. —Well, you know what they say. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! |
a bad apple | a person with questionable character whose behaviour has a negative effect on others | I was a bad apple at school. I played tricks on the teachers and made my friends help me. |
Idioms with other fruit
Idiom | Explanation | Example |
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go bananas | become extremely angry or excited | Alice will go bananas when she opens her birthday present. She’s been asking for a bike for months. |
cherry pick | the practice of only selecting the very best items from what is available | You have to look at all the facts instead of just cherry picking those that support your ideas. |
sour grapes | having a negative attitude towards something because it can’t be obtained, similar to being a sore loser | Paula said that she didn’t really want the job anyway, but I think that’s just sour grapes because they gave it to Jeff. |