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Subject: Re: [ABOUT-WORDS] sour apples
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:01:06 EDT



When I was a little kid, I loved to eat green (sour) apples. I would crawl
up in the tree when grandpa was not around. Always got a belly ache later, but
it was worth it. I usually got spanked--they could tell when my belly
cramped.

I still like that kind of apple--I buy Jonathans in the store because they
are so tart.
Delicious are marginally OK.
And the yellow apples are way two sweet.

Pippins are not too bad. They are better in pies.
FRED

In a message dated 8/4/2007 7:47:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:


Izzy, I visited that site you gave, and it seems that only one person said
that he knew of the term "sour apples", but he did not give his take on its
meaning. Personally I have never met the term even though I have extensively
searched through many wordbooks.

I use the OneLook dictionary site which has at the moment 8,853,196 words
indexed from 937 dictionaries. They have no record of "sour apples" or "for
sour apples".

OneLook does have a listing for "sour apple", and so do I in a Dictionary of
Bowling Terms, as follows -

sour apple -
A weak hit that leaves leaves the 5-7, 5-10 or 5-7-10 split; also, the
5-7-10 split itself.

I even consulted Jonathon Green's huge tome, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang,
but there is no listing for "sour apples".

DARE, or the Dictionary of American Regional English, has published four
volumes so far, but they take you only to the phrase "sky writer". The next
volume is expected out in another couple of years.

Bruce.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Israel Cohen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 1:27 AM
Subject: [ABOUT-WORDS] sour apples


> Google for < "sour apples" idiom > to see some on-target references. For
> example:
>
http://www.yourdictionary.com/cgi-bin/agora/agora.cgi?board=idiom;action=display;num=1079730421;start=0#0
>
> Izzy
>
>
>> At 00:09 04/08/2007, wrote:
>> My wife just got back from a visit down in southern Calif. It rained
>> hard.
>> She said, "The passenger side windshield wiper didn't work for
>> sour apples."
>> I bought two new wiper blades this morning. Why do we say "....for
>> sour
>> apples....?"
>> FRED
>>
>
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