noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cherry/peach/apple etc tree
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We planted a peach tree in the backyard.
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the trunk of an old oak tree the main central part, from which the branches grow
Adam's apple
apple polisher
apple/corn/banana etc fritter
apple/treacle/jam etc tart
candy apple
cooking apple
crab apple
eating apple
toffee apple
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Rotten as a bad apple , and ready for the bulldozers of history.
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The Colonel glared expectantly at the damp mob, trying to pinpoint the bad apple .
big
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Risking everything he grabbed two tomatoes and the biggest apples before bedding down for another night under cover of trees.
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Of course there is a big apple involved.
eating
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Whenever possible use four parts of eating apples with two parts of cooking apples or crab apples.
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The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate.
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But here is where even the everyday eating apple takes on a different meaning according to the context.
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I have a tree in my garden that has both cookers and eating apples growing on separate boughs.
fresh
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A white cloth was spread on the table, homemade bread and jam, a fresh apple tart.
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Lucid she is would like fresh tomatoes, apples and oranges.
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Tea/supper 1 oz. of diced cheddar cheese mixed with one diced fresh apple .
golden
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No one succeeded, apart from one man who laid golden apples in her way.
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He gave Aphrodite the golden apple .
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The world belongs to the cunning, and fortune drops like golden apples into the laps of the unscrupulous.
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He kept his head, how-ever, and held fast to his golden apples .
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So matters stood when Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite.
green
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What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one.
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We slice green apples from my tree, scrub mussels and crabs, extract periwinkles from their shells.
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We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.
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But it was hard to ignore hard green crab apples lobbing in, and finally my sister made a dash for him.
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Perched on the table beneath a bright green apple and a bottle of pills.
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And a bowl of perfect green apples .
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Without you green apples wouldn't taste greener.
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I get on with it over lunch - a sandwich and a green apple from the canteen, eaten at my desk.
little
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From that bad start, many little rotten apples grew.
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Then a little girl picks apples here in the fall.
old
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It may be anything - roots, green stuff, old apples: it all depends.
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And it was here that we spent the last three hours of daylight in the top of an old apple tree.
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They were now driving past some very old apple trees next to the road.
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Gnarled old apple trees on one side of them, beech trees, sloping upward, on the other.
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Using a long hooked pole, he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree.
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She saved an old apple tree which the gale of 1987 had blown horizontal, but which sprouted again in the spring.
red
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It was now full of shiny red apples .
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Primo had won a green stuffed turtle by throwing three darts into a target shaped like a red apple .
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Annie was so solid and content, she was like a shiny red apple .
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Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.
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Don't paint the red apple as seen, brighten and lighten its mood or subdue and cool its expression.
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Bite into a shiny, red apple and taste insipid sponge.
rotten
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From that bad start, many little rotten apples grew.
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If you have one rotten apple in the bunch, it impacts the others.
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We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.
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In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.
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A few windows were flung open, and two little lads pelted Broomhead with rotten apples before they were chased off.
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And they are doing it in an era that has seen dot-coms dropping from the Internet tree like rotten apples .
small
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It contains six small apples and has the sort of handle which makes it easy to carry to school or on outings.
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If too thick, thin with a small amount of apple cider.
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What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one.
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Enormous apples open to reveal singing heads inside, as smaller apples dance along ropes like bouncing musical notes.
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Mulled wine Makes about 10 glasses Quarter one small apple and stud with eight cloves.
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She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.
tart
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An ancient apple tree in the clearing has delicious, tart yellow apples of a long-lost variety.
■ NOUN
blossom
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The scent of apple blossom was plain enough.
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In the spring, the rolling hills around Yakima Valley turn snow white with cherry and apple blossoms .
cart
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart , which is precisely what happened in Florida.
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Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart .
cider
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If too thick, thin with a small amount of apple cider .
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Add cab Age, apples , stock, wine, apple cider , and vinegar and bring to a boil.
crab
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Whenever possible use four parts of eating apples with two parts of cooking apples or crab apples.
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We moved away from the house maybe thirty feet to where there were some low crab apples , and waited.
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The result: plenty of fresh produce for the kitchen and such delights as crab apple and quince jellies and pickled walnuts.
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I picked one and threw it at a crab apple tree.
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We've planted every kind of native tree you could think of in a hedge, including crab apple and wayfarer tree.
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And then a crab apple flew in and bounced a few feet from Pinky.
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Certainly each of the six crab apples planted in my garden earn their keep in wildlife and ornamental terms.
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I picked the biggest tomato I saw and took out a few more crab apples .
juice
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We are fully licensed, and specialise in local ale, apple juice and Sussex wines.
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All were heavy apple juice drinkers.
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Pour the orange juice or apple juice over the fruit and mix well.
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We have apple juice and cranberry juice.
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The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate.
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And he loved apple juice and chewing gum and watching ice hockey games.
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Asioz bought them champagne, and they filled his glass with sparkling wine and their own with apple juice from a carton.
orchard
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Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
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We rode until we passed an overgrown meadow which must once have been part of an apple orchard .
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As you know, Edward destroyed his forces amongst the apple orchards of Evesham in 1264.
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Instead of barbed wire and endless gray mud, it was surrounded by apple orchards , gardens, rivers and lakes.
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In May 1994 1.7 hectares in a 20-hectare commercial apple orchard were planted with stands of Golden Delicious.
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And she owned the most land, much of it given over to an aged but productive apple orchard .
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He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture, and he made a sketch of it.
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Also patron of apple orchards and catechists.
pie
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And the pledges were largely of the motherhood and apple pie kind-wholesome, sensible and entirely unobjectionable.
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A Mason jar of early wildflowers sat in the center, along with a deep-dish apple pie , fresh from the oven.
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He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie .
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But if you want a great apple pie , use a variety of apples.
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They were just finishing the apple pie when the phone rang.
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For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie .
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Traditionalists insist that there are only three appropriate accompaniments to Wensleydale: - apple pie , gingerbread, or fruit cake.
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For their first meal, she bought frozen fish sticks, frozen french fries, frozen peas and a frozen apple pie .
slice
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Strain the liquid, then add orange, lemon and apple slices .
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Alternating them, arrange pheasant and apple slices on top of salad in spoke design.
tree
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The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens.
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I went down to the phone to talk with Erica and Stuart, then came back up and pruned two apple trees .
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The branching pattern of an oak tree or an apple tree looks complex, but it really isn't.
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Ash and sugar maple trees were shooting up among the apple trees in the remorseless struggle for light.
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Overhanging the corner of the shed was an ancient apple tree , with greyish mossy growths on its trunk and branches.
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At last he reached a field of apple trees whose flowers were just becoming tiny knots of fruit.
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The woman leading the group spots a stand of dead apple trees .
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Next to the cabin is an apple tree where the wildlife has spared the apples, and I gather 15 of them.
■ VERB
add
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Cover with a tight-fitting lid and simmer on a low heat for one hour. Add apples 15 minutes before the end.
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Toast walnuts or pecans and sprinkle over your favorite salad. Add sliced apples or pears to a green salad.
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Melt remaining butter in shallow flameproof dish, add apples and turn gently in butter until lightly browned.
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Drain and reserve with duck. Add onions and apples to roasting pan and cook to soften, about 10 minutes.
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Use skimmed milk and an egg for making the mixture moist; add a little apple juice too if you like.
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Bring to boiling point, stirring constantly. Add apple , and put all in a 2-quart casserole.
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Gradually stir in cider or stock, until thick and smooth. Add apple , cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
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Cut the oranges into segments and place in a serving dish. Add the apples and a little of the juice.
buy
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If your company provides free lunches, don't be deterred from missing one occasionally and buying your own apple .
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What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one.
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Another example is I bought some apples , which does not stand in a contrary relationship with I bought some pears.
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And I will say this for the greengrocer, he never at any time tried to pressurize Buffy into buying the apple .
cook
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Festive Filling - cooked chopped turkey and apple combined with cranberry sauce. 9.
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And frozen yogurt topped with cooked Baxter apples .
core
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Peel and core the apples and cut into quarters.
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Do not pare apples . Core and slice apples very, very thin.
eat
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It is rarely remarked that what she sought to gain from eating the apples was Knowledge.
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Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.
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We sat down to eat our apples .
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In fact you can eat it like an apple , though the citron is most always candied.
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This reminds us of Adam and Eve in the bible and the disobedience of man when they ate the forbidden apple .
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I eat all the apple strudel.
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Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect.
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I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple .
fall
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Under his feet, fallen apples were mixed in with the first autumn leaves.
grow
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In 1986, Wangand her family began growing apples .
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A growing apple passes through a sequence of stages, and one stage is best.
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Female speaker People either grow apples or work with them, and it unifies the villages.
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A row of cordons must be the easiest possible way to grow apples .
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At Monticello he grew endless varieties of apples and grapes and flowers, so his use of gardening imagery is understandable.
peel
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Chop the segments. Peel and core the apples and cut into quarters.
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Puny started slicing the peeled apples .
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Towards the end she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care.
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The lychees should completely cover the centers of the pastry squares. Peel the apples .
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I also admired the way he could peel an apple with the skin in one piece, coiled like a spring.
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By the time Christopher had peeled all the apples , she had the oven heating and the pastry rolled.
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Then again, they peel their apples with fancy, little knives instead of savaging them with their gnashers.
pick
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She was coming from Washington State, where she had spent the summer picking apples .
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Suppose some one in a greengrocery picks up an apple and says: Is this the fruit you mean?
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I split and pile wood, and pick the apples that have fallen off the tree near the cabin.
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Atlas did so, and Hercules picked up the apples and went off.
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As she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal.
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Even as a teenager, I decided that my family would not have to pick cherries or apples in the blazing sun.
serve
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It may not look anything like an apple , but it serves to represent the apple.
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Carry on until you have used up all the batter. Serve with apple sauce, sour cream or jam.
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Once, just after Inez served apple pie a la mode, Alfred snorted suddenly, loudly.
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Food is served on crushed apple pulp plates, with baked cornflour cutlery.
upset
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rotten apple
sth is as American as apple pie
upset the apple cart
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when she swallowed, the first mouthful of crisp apple hurt her throat so much she almost cried.
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Gently I reach to the side and pluck an apple off the tree, then drop it.
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Her appearance reminded me of a cute apple doll you buy at the fair.
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I imagined how the apple had come to be in my bed.
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If you have one rotten apple in the bunch, it impacts the others.
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They thought of ways to make the apple fall.
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Yes, crushed apple was a very good medicine when properly blended with glucose and sterile milk for small stomachs.