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has gloss | eng: How do you like them apples?, also shortened to, How do you like them? or, Them apples, sometimes spelled Dem apples, is a phrase used to gloat or to express bemusement. In both senses, the phrase acts as a rhetorical question. The origin of this idiom is uncertain. The phrase experienced a resurgence after being said by Matt Damon in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting. Prior to that it was used in the movie Rio Bravo, in 1959 and by Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanskis film noir Chinatown, in 1974. It was also used in the 9th episode of the TV series M*A*S*H in 1970. The first time this was used in a film was probably in Howard Hawks "The Big Sky" starring Kirk Douglas in 1952. |
lexicalization | eng: How do you like them apples |
instance of | c/American English idioms |
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