The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Eudora Thao calendar 2021-09-02 07:09

Meaning of The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

Synonyms:

Birds Of a Feather Flock Together , Like Father, Like Son , be a chip off the old block , like mother, like daughter

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree American proverb idiom

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree means that children will have the same traits or characters of their parents. In VietNam, there also have some idioms like: like father, like son or be a chip off the old block. 

Children grow up to be similar to their parents, both in personality and in physical characteristics

If there is a woman that is great voice, and her daughter is great voice too, this is where we can use the expression "The apple does not fall far from the tree”

If there is a girl who has brown eyes and her father has brown eyes too, we can say that 'The apple does not fall far from the tree'.

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Origin of The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

The first time American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson used this idiom in English when he wrote in a letter in 1839 that 'The apple never leaves the tree trunk'. But here Emerson has used it in a different sense to describe the stress that reminded us home from childhood. However, This idiom used to express the similarity between children and their parents

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