# "You Are The Apple Of My Eye" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261 "2009-08-04T05:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/1 "2009-08-04T05:05:33Z")
Oh, _really_?😕 So should I keep my “eyes peeled” so that you’ll get your “just deserts”? Can y’all come up with any other seemingly incongruous phrases that make you go _WTF_?😃 Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/2 "2009-08-04T06:58:33Z")
“The proof is in the pudding.” No, I didn’t get it the first time I heard it, and the wink doesn’t help either. I have no idea what you’re suggesting. In fact, don’t talk like you know what you’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/3 "2009-08-04T07:30:48Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > “The proof is in the pudding.” The original expression is, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” which isn’t too hard to understand. Whenever I hear “the proof is in the pudding,” I think to myself, “rum pudding?” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/4 "2009-08-04T07:51:24Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > “The proof is in the pudding.” > > No, I didn’t get it the first time I heard it, and the wink doesn’t help either. I have no idea what you’re suggesting. In fact, don’t talk like you know what you’re saying. Completely forgot about **that** one. **Koz**!🙂 Chuckled when I read your post! **GREAT** example! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/5 "2009-08-04T07:54:00Z")
How about… "I left her/him _high and dry!"?_ Q ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/6 "2009-08-04T08:17:15Z")
I always thought high and dry referred to a boat that was sitting high on the beach and the tide as gone out, thus dry. IOW: your screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/7 "2009-08-04T16:16:01Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Oh, _really_?😕 > you’ll get your “just deserts”? Well, this meaning of ‘desert’ (though not used very much any more) comes from the same root as ‘deserve’. If you think of it as ‘what you fairly deserve’, the phrase is pretty clear. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/8 "2009-08-04T17:29:48Z")
The US used to be intimately connected to the railroad, but as we have drifted away from trains its influence on culture has waned. Some of the sayings that originated in (or took new meaning from) the world of rails are now on their own: off the rails sidetracked on track / on the right track / on the wrong track fast track wrong side of the tracks railroaded like a freight train gravy train ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-apple-of-my-eye/505261/9 "2009-08-04T17:35:29Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Well, this meaning of ‘desert’ (though not used very much any more) comes from the same root as ‘deserve’. If you think of it as ‘what you fairly deserve’, the phrase is pretty clear. I know.🙂 Checked it out before i wrote it. Was just making a “play on words”😉 Q