apple.html - See: POLISH THE APPLE.

apple.html - {n.}, {slang} Trying to win someone's good-will by small acts currying favor; the behavior of an apple polisher. * /When John I brought his teacher flowers, everyone thought he was apple polishing./

apple.html - {n. phr.} Something or someone that is adored; a cherished person or object. * /Charles is the apple of his mother's eye./ * /John's first car was the apple of his eye. He was always polishing it./

apple.html - See: POLISH THE APPLE.

apple.html - {n. phr.}, {informal} Exact orderly arrangement, neatness; tidy arrangement. * /The house was in apple-pie order./ * /Like a good secretary, she kept the boss's desk in apple-pie order./

apple.html - See: UPSET THE APPLECART or UPSET ONE'S APPLECART.