Teach Apple-Themed Expressions with Flip Cards and Matching Games

This English proverb means that eating nutritious food will improve your health. It originated in 1866 with the phrase: “Eat an apple on going to bed, And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”

This phrase highlights the uselessness of comparing two basically different things.

This saying implies that children often inherit the traits of their parents.

In the 1700s, poor families in Denmark and Sweden paid for their children's education with apples, giving rise to this tradition.

This phrase describes someone or something as being thoroughly bad or corrupt.

Dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, this phrase refers to someone who is cherished or beloved.

This phrase is used to boast about one’s cleverness or triumph over another.

This phrase is often used to describe someone in a bad mood or exhibiting bitterness.

This term describes someone who flatters another to gain favor or advantage.

First coined by Chaucer as, "the rotten apple injures its neighbors." This phrase indicates that one negative influence can ruin an entire group.

This nickname for New York City originated during the jazz age of the 1930s and ’40s. Manhattan soon became known for having "lots of apples on the tree" – that is, lots of places to play jazz.

In early America, wealthy families who could afford both upper and lower pie crusts were called the "upper crust."

This idiom means to ruin plans or arrangements.

This phrase is often used to describe someone in a bad mood or exhibiting bitterness.

This phrase describes something that is very neat, tidy, and well-organized. Its origin is uncertain but it has been used since the 18th century.