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the apple never falls far from the tree

Универсальный англо-русский словарь . Академик.ру . 2011 .

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the apple never falls far from the tree — ► the apple never falls far from the tree proverb salient family characteristics are usually inherited. Main Entry: ↑apple … English terms dictionary

the apple never falls far from the tree — Apparently of Eastern origin, it is frequently used to assert the continuity of family characteristics. Quot. 1839 implies return to one’s original home. Cf. 16th cent. Ger. der Apfel fellt nicht gerne weit vom Baume, the apple does not usually… … Proverbs new dictionary

the apple never falls far from the tree — proverb family characteristics are usually inherited … Useful english dictionary

(the) apple doesn’t never falls far from the tree — the apple doesn t fall/never falls far from the ˈtree idiom (saying, especially NAmE) a child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s) Main entry: ↑appleidiom … Useful english dictionary

(the) apple doesn’t fall falls far from the tree — the apple doesn t fall/never falls far from the ˈtree idiom (saying, especially NAmE) a child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s) Main entry: ↑appleidiom … Useful english dictionary

apple — ► NOUN ▪ the rounded fruit of a tree of the rose family, with green or red skin and crisp flesh. ● the apple never falls far from the tree Cf. ↑the apple never falls far from the tree ● the apple of one s eye Cf. ↑the apple of one s eye ● … English terms dictionary

tree — see as a tree falls, so shall it lie the tree is known by its fruit the apple never falls far from the tree he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you… … Proverbs new dictionary

apple — see an apple a day keeps the doctor away the apple never falls far from the tree the rotten apple injures its neighbour small choice in rotten apples stolen fruit is sweet … Proverbs new dictionary

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the apple never falls far from the tree

Универсальный англо-русский словарь . Академик.ру . 2011 .

Смотреть что такое «the apple never falls far from the tree» в других словарях:

the apple never falls far from the tree — ► the apple never falls far from the tree proverb salient family characteristics are usually inherited. Main Entry: ↑apple … English terms dictionary

the apple never falls far from the tree — Apparently of Eastern origin, it is frequently used to assert the continuity of family characteristics. Quot. 1839 implies return to one’s original home. Cf. 16th cent. Ger. der Apfel fellt nicht gerne weit vom Baume, the apple does not usually… … Proverbs new dictionary

the apple never falls far from the tree — proverb family characteristics are usually inherited … Useful english dictionary

(the) apple doesn’t never falls far from the tree — the apple doesn t fall/never falls far from the ˈtree idiom (saying, especially NAmE) a child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s) Main entry: ↑appleidiom … Useful english dictionary

(the) apple doesn’t fall falls far from the tree — the apple doesn t fall/never falls far from the ˈtree idiom (saying, especially NAmE) a child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s) Main entry: ↑appleidiom … Useful english dictionary

apple — ► NOUN ▪ the rounded fruit of a tree of the rose family, with green or red skin and crisp flesh. ● the apple never falls far from the tree Cf. ↑the apple never falls far from the tree ● the apple of one s eye Cf. ↑the apple of one s eye ● … English terms dictionary

tree — see as a tree falls, so shall it lie the tree is known by its fruit the apple never falls far from the tree he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you… … Proverbs new dictionary

apple — see an apple a day keeps the doctor away the apple never falls far from the tree the rotten apple injures its neighbour small choice in rotten apples stolen fruit is sweet … Proverbs new dictionary

The Simpsons Movie — The Simpsons Movie … Wikipedia

The Tragedy of Man — ( hu. Az ember tragédiája) is a play written by the Hungarian author Imre Madách. It was first published in 1861. The play is considered to be one of the major works of Hungarian literature and is one of the most often staged Hungarian plays… … Wikipedia

The Enchanted Apples of Oz — Infobox graphic novel title= The Enchanted Apples of Oz foreigntitle= imagesize= 250 caption= Cover to The Enchanted Apples of Oz ( First Graphic Novel #5). Art by Eric Shanower publisher= First Comics date= 1986 series= First Graphic Novel #5… … Wikipedia

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The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

Meaning:

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is a phrase that is typically said in connection with children who show qualities or talents that are similar to those of their parents.

Example: Dan was an older man with back problems, so he disliked having to carry in a car full of groceries. Lifting everything inside was such a pain! But one day when Dan returned from shopping, his neighbor came over to help. Then, the next time, the neighbor’s son helped to carry things inside.

Afterwards, Dan told the boy: “I see that the apple never falls far from the tree.” In other words, he was saying the boy was like his father—they were both nice and helpful.

Synonyms / Related Phrases:

1. A chip off the old block
2. Like father, like son
3. Like two peas in a pod

The Origin Of ‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree’

Let’s talk about the origin of the phrase ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’

At the bottom of an apple tree (or pretty much any fruit tree for that matter), you might see the fruit it produces laying on the ground. The fruit falls off the branches and drops to the ground, but it remains close to the tree it came from. This natural occurrence eventually turned into a metaphor and now today, it means that a person ‘is not far off from how their parents are.’

But who came up with this proverb?

Unfortunately, the exact person is not known. Moreover, the place where it originated from is not clear either. I have heard that this saying might have come from Asia, but it is hard to say for sure.

According to Richard Jenie, who wrote German Proverbs from the Orient, he mentions that this proverb makes an early appearance in the year 1585. That is old! The earliest I could find it in print is a little later than that, from 1605 in a book (named below) by Hieronymus Megiser. Multiple proverbs are listed in this book and on page 65, a part reads:

“Der Apffel fellt nicht weit vom Baum.”

(When translated from German to English, this says: “The apple does not fall far from the tree.”)

This quote is from a book called (roughly translated): Aroemiologia Polyglottos: that is, Proverbs and opinions of different languages.

Anyway, if this proverb does go back to the year 1585, that means it is at least 430 years old.

Tip: For more sayings like this one, we have a list of common English phrases starting with “T” that you can explore. Check it out!

Examples Of ‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree’

Here are two examples of this expression in a sentence:

• Your mother is a skilled pianist and from what I have heard, you are too! I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
• Sarah was a kind person, always showing consideration for others. Her parents were the same way, so it seems that the applenever falls far from the tree, as the saying goes.

Did You Know? — Why Does Fruit Fall From a Tree?

A tree might drop its fruit for a few reasons. For example, the weather. If the wind is blowing hard enough, it can cause fruit to fall off. Another reason is the tree lacks water. If there is not enough to go around, the tree may drop some of its produce so it has enough to support the remaining ones.

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Apples Never Fall

By Liane Moriarty

Book review and synopsis for Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, a family drama about four siblings, their missing mother and a stranger who shows up at their door.

Synopsis

Apples Never Fall follows the four Delaney siblings after the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney. The police soon identify their father, Stan, as a possible person of interest in her case.

As they try to unravel the mystery of what happened to her or where she went, the four siblings — Troy, Brooke, Logan and Amy — are forced to confront truths about their relationships with each other, with their significant others, with their parents and about their parents’ marriage.

To complicate matters, there’s also a strange young woman who showed up at Stan and Joy Delaney’s door a while back, and who is now nowhere to be found.

Detailed Plot Summary

The one-paragraph version: Joy Delany goes missing, and her husband Stan is the prime suspect. Joy and Stan used to run a tennis school but are now retired. As her kids try to find out what happened, they end up confronting their own issues and in their relationships with each other. Last September, a young woman named Savannah showed up asking for help stayed with Stan and Joy for a while. It turns out that Savannah is the sibling of Harry Haddad, a former star student who is now a famous tennis player. She drops a bombshell that Joy is the reason that Harry left their tennis school. That revelation causes Joy and Stan to confront the issues in their marriage. In the end, Stan is almost arrested, but then it turns out Joy is alive when she returns from a 3-week off-the-grid trip with Savannah. She needed some time apart before returning to work on their marriage. The book ends with Savannah going home to confront her own mother.

The book opens with the discovery of a bike near the side of the road and four apples next to it. It then jumps to present day, the four Delaney siblings — Brooke (29), Troy (early 30s), Logan (37), Amy (39) — discussing the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney, who appears to have ridden off on her bike a week ago. She sent them a text message full of gibberish and hasn’t been reachable since. They’re worried that if they go to the police, the main suspect will be their father, Stan, since Joy and Stan had a fight before the disappearance.

Joy and Stan are retirees that used to run a tennis school. Stan did the coaching while Joy ran the busines. In their younger years, they played competitively until Stan was injured. All their kids also played and excelled at tennis, however, none of them made it to the top of the sport for various reasons. Amy got too «in her head» about it, Logan never «truly committed» to the sport, Troy was too show-off-y and not strategic enough, and Brooke got migraines that ended her career.

As the book jumps back and forth in time, it’s revealed that last September, a young woman named Savannah Pagonisshowed up at Stan and Joy’s door, saying that she ended up here randomly since she didn’t know where to go after getting into a fight with her boyfriend who hit her. Stan and Joy let her stay the night, and they eventually invite her to stay until she’s sorted out. They tell Troy and Logan accompany her to her old apartment to pick up her stuff, where they have a brief but non-violent run-in with her ex-boyfriend, Dave. As Savannah stays with them, Joy is delighted that Savannah cooks for them, a task Joy has always hated.

Meanwhile, on the news, there are reports of a comeback for tennis star Harry Haddad. Harry is a former star student of Stan’s, and the subject is a sore spot for Stan because Harry ditched him as a coach before he got really famous. Stan thinks he could’ve gotten Harry even further if he’d remained his coach.

In present day, the siblings end up going to the police and Detective Christina Khoury and Constable Ethan Lim start to investigate. As they gather evidence, they see the scratches on Stan’s face and that Joy made a lengthy phone call to another man, a Dr. Henry Edgeworth, the day she left. They haven’t been able to contact Henry yet. The siblings also try to track down Savannah, who is nowhere to be found. They also find Joy’s phone underneath the bed in their parents’ room.

Flashing back to September, the book also follows each of the siblings’ lives as this is going on. Brooke runs a physiotherapy clinic and is currently separated from her husband Grant. Despite her migraines, she has always been the most resilient and responsible sibling. Logan teaches at a community college. His girlfriend Indira has recently left him after saying he was too passive and didn’t want her enough. Troy is wealthy and works as a trader. He has always been competitive, especially with Logan (who in turn has never cared to compete). Troy’s ex-wife Claire has recently asked if she could use their frozen embryos to have a child since she is having difficulty conceiving. He and Claire split because he cheated on her. And Amy is working part-time as a «taste-tester». She has mental ailments which she struggles with and is seeing a therapist (Roger) for.

On (Australian) Father’s Day (in September), there’s a family gathering where Savannah cooks for everyone. Stan and Joy almost get into a fight about how Stan has always seen anything having to do with taking care of the kids as solely her responsibility. However, Logan changes the topic to his breakup with Indira. The family is sad because they all loved her.

Soon, Joy is hospitalized for two days due to a kidney infection. In the interim, the siblings start to suspect that Savannah is a liar when Logan realizes her story about her abusive boyfriend is copied word-for-word from an interview in a documentary. Stan also wants Savannah to leave (which later turns out to be because Savannah tried to come on to him). Soon, Logan finds Dave (Savannah’s ex), who says that he never hit Savannah. Dave says he accidentally forgot her birthday, and she walked out when a TV segment about Harry Haddad came on. Meanwhile, Brooke learns that Savannah’s last name is fake. Amy learns (with help from a guy named Simon she starts seeing) that Savannah owned a company that was shut down because it sold fraudulent tennis memorabilia. Savannah also finds Troy demands money, saying that Stan was inappropriate with her and that she’s going to tell Joy about it unless he pays up. Troy gives her the money.

In present day, Brooke works on finding Stan a lawyer. Meanwhile, the police learn about how Stan has a frustrating habit of leaving, sometimes for days, when he gets angry about stuff. Stan refuses to get a cell phone and doesn’t tell anyone where he goes. The kids think that Joy might be gone as «payback» for all those times. As the police investigate, a body is found, but it turns out not to be Joy.

Flashing back to October, with everyone’s suspicions about Savannah growing, Joy decides to investigate, too. A search of Savannah’s room shows that Savannah has an eating disorder and, more shockingly, that she knows Harry Haddad. At that moment, Savannah admits that she’s Harry sister who they met once. The family soon gathers, and Savannah explains to all of them that her parents are divorced. She stayed with her mother and their father took Harry. As a young girl, her mother wanted her to be a ballerina, so she forced Savannah to diet aggressively. One day, she came to the Delaney’s house to pick up Harry. She was desperate for some food, but everyone was mean to her and yelled at her. So, she came back to exact her revenge.

While some of the Delaneys are sympathetic (Savannah agrees to return the money she got from Troy), they still tell her she needs to leave. Before she does, Savannah drops the bombshell that Joy is the reason that Harry Haddad ditched Stan as his coach. It turns out that Joy suggested to Harry’s dad (Elias) that Harry leave because she didn’t want Stan to be traveling internationally all the time and leaving her along to raise the kids and run their business. (Joy tells them it was also so he could focus on coaching their kids, but later she admits to herself that it was more for herself and because she was angry at Stan for walking out on her all the time).

Right after Stan learns this upsetting information, he walks out. However, he doesn’t get far because he falls in a pothole and injures himself. Instead, he ends up stuck at home recovering. By Christmas, Stan and Joy parents are still not speaking to each other. When the family gathers, Joy burns some food and when Stan is rude about it, Joy destroys a decorative china cat that used to belong to Stan’s mother. After that, the siblings stay away from their parents’ house for a while.

In present day, more incriminating evidence is found. A bloody t-shirt belonging to Joy is found behind that Delaney house. And a CCTV recording shows Stan putting something bulky rolled up into his car trunk. (Around this time, Logan figures out that he really loves Indira, who has supported him through this ordeal, and, he knows he needed to truly commit to their relationship. He offers to move into a bigger place which she wanted, and he buys a ring to later propose with.)

Flashing back to this past Valentine’s Day, Joy wants to give a peace offering to Stan by making some apple crumble pie (which Stan’s mother used to make), but her bike gets a flat tire on the way back from the market and she abandons it and the apples by the street.

Instead, Stan and Joy get into a fight when Stan says he’s just read Harry’s memoir. It mentions that Harry had cheated at tennis as a kid. (Troy had said so in the past, but Stan never believed him and Joy accuses him of choosing Harry over their kids.) It escalates into an argument when Stan accuses Joy of sabotaging him. Joy, however, says that she gave up her profession, for him. She gave up tennis when he got injured and instead ran the business and raised their kids. However, Stan says that she was never good enough to get to the top, and Joy angrily says that he wasn’t the best coach for Harry (which she doesn’t actually believe). When Stan starts to walk out the door, Joy has finally had enough of him walking out and grabs at him to stop him.

(In that moment, Stan thinks about how his own father had once laid hands on his mother. He thinks about how angry he is and how he is just like his father. However, he also knows his father told him he should just walk away if he’s ever in a similar situation, which is why Stan forces himself to walk out.)

In present day, the police show up to arrest Stan, but then Joy Delaney walks in the door, looking confused. She has been on a 21-day off-the-grid retreat with Savannah. Savannah had just so happened to call her after Stan walked out (she was staying with Dr. Henry Edgeworth — someone else she was getting revenge on — at the time which is why the police though Joy had chatted with him that day), and Joy had decided she didn’t want to be there when he returned. Instead, she wanted to go away for a bit and then come back to work on their marriage. It turns out she had left a note on the fridge for Stan but it fell off and the dog must’ve eaten it. Her text to the kids also ended up full of typos and autocorrects which is why it was full of gibberish.

Stan soon lets the kids know that their mother is back and there are hugs all around. Stan promises to get a cell phone so he will not be unreachable anymore. He also removed the carpet from their living room (which is what the CCTV footage showed) while she was gone, since Joy has always wanted it gone. He later tells Joy that he «understands» about the Harry Haddad situation, and Joy admits to herself that she gave up tennis because she chose to.

Sometime later, Savannah goes home to Adelaide visit her own mother. She thinks of how her mother forced her to lose weight by locking her in her room as a child without food. When her mother takes her sleeping pills, Savannah drags her into her old room, puts some food and water in there, leaves a note telling her mother to ration it carefully and then locks her in there. She then flies off. The book ends with Savannah returning at a later time, not knowing if her mother is still in there or if she got out or if she’s still alive.

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Book Review

Apples Never Fall is the newest release from Liane Moriarty, a family drama with a little mystery woven in. Liane Moriarty has been a big name lately with the success of the adaptations of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers.

Apples Never Fall opens after the matriarch of the Delaney family has seemingly gone missing. The four Delaney siblings end up being unsure about whether she left on purpose or if something happened to her, and from there the book follows each of the members of the Delaney family and their relationships with one another. Much of the book is told through flashbacks from before the disappearance that deal with their family dynamics.

So, while the premise of the book is the disappearance, the main substance of the book is a family drama about a group of siblings and their parents who used to run a tennis academy. The story starts off a little slow, but I’d encourage you to stick with it.

In terms of the substance, Apples Never Fall reminds me of a less “weird” version of Nine Perfect Strangers. It has solid characters, interesting and complicated familial relationships, and compelling inter-personal stories — with less of the strange plot twists that Nine Perfect Strangers had. (There is still a little bit of weirdness in it, though, but not as much.)

I love that this has really complex and substantive family drama elements, but it doesn’t feel too “heavy” somehow. I mean this in the best possible way. The book still feels like easy reading and the tone of it isn’t so morose and depressing like many family drama novels. The characters address all these touchy topics, but they don’t sulk or brood over them throughout the book.

I also like that the book ends in a sensible and satisfying way. Even though there’s a little weirdness in the middle, in terms of the main substance and overall narrative of the book, it’s solid.

Some Criticisms

As much as I do like Liane Moriarty’s ability to craft interesting family dynamics, I’m still not entirely sold on the mystery component in her novels. I like that she has some sense of mystery and suspense, I just feel like they get a little wonky sometimes.

Here, the plotline gets a little odd regarding the character of Savannah. Her motivations and justifications for stuff didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It doesn’t really seem like she behaves in any way a human would act. (See the Spoiler-ish Thoughts section, below.) Still, for the most part, I was able to look past it to keep enjoying the book.

More importantly, the overall narrative of the book makes sense (even with some weirdness regarding Savannah’s characterization).

Read it or Skip it?

I liked this book, partially because I had thought that with all of Liane Moriarty’s recent success that she would, quite frankly, just start phoning it in. Instead, with Apples Never Fall, she delivered a new novel that I think is solid. It’s substantive and satisfying, yet easy to read.

The main warning I would provide is that the book starts off a little slow. There’ also a little wonkiness in the plot as far as one of the characters is concerned (Savannah), but I was able to just sort of ignore it and move on.

Fans of Liane Moriarty should definitely read this book. I think you’ll love it. This would be a great book club pick as well. I’d also recommend this to anyone who likes family dramas in general.

As for mystery fans, the mystery elements mostly just provide the framework for the novel, so if that’s what you’re after, perhaps this will be a skip for you. There’s a mystery component, but it’s not the strongest point of the book. But fans of authors like Lisa Jewell (who incorporates heavy family drama elements into her mysteries) may still want to give this one a look.

So, what do you think, is this something you’d read or want to read? Drop a comment below to share your thoughts!

Spoiler-ish Thoughts

SPOILERS BEGIN HERE. You’ve been warned.

The whole character of Savannah was kind of disappointing. Why would she go seek out a house just cause she got yelled at a few times there? Even if she was a young girl, going into a house full of people you’ve never met before and demanding/stealing food is pretty ridiculous. She’d have to be pretty deranged to later think about that and be angry about them yelling at her. I guess that’s kind of the point, but the fact that the resolution of all the mystery surrounding her is “oh she’s totally insane and nothing she does makes sense” is kind of disappointing.

Plus, all the stuff with her trying to blackmail Troy and hitting on Stan just is so out-of-the-blue.

Beyond that, it’s implausible to me that the Delaneys would bring up Savannah’s name to the police and not bother to mention that Savannah was Harry’s sister. I mean what’s the point of bringing it up to police and having them waste their time tracking her down and not giving them the key piece of information to be able to do it?

Finally, the whole idea that Harry could somehow not find out that Savannah didn’t have cancer (like, he never asked her about it?) for a long time seems pretty implausible. Plus, why would he never mention it to her until the memoir came out?

There’s so many parts of this book I really liked, and I think Liane Moriarty writes fantastic characters with compelling interpersonal narratives, but I do wish this book was a little more neatly plotted in the middle parts.

Apples Never Fall Audiobook Review

Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

I liked the audiobook, and I thought it was well done. She does a good job with both the slightly sardonic/comical parts as well the more serious parts.

The book is narrated with a lovely, but thick Australian accent. I really enjoy the accent, but I suspect this may be a fairly subjective opinion. I’d recommend giving it a listen to decide if it’s something you’d like listening to for 18 hours.

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