趣味英语单词典故 01 Apple-Pie Order.docx

趣味英语单词典故 01 Apple-Pie Order
01 Apple-Pie Order
, we tell about the expression apple-pie order.
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had landed there.
then exported tomato to Morocco.
traders carried it onto Italy.
Italian name for tomato was pomo de Mauro, apple of the Moores.
French growers imported it from Italy,
thought de Mauro meant d'amour,
French word for love,
01 Apple-Pie Order
, we tell about the expression apple-pie order.
means in perfect order, very well organized.
is sure where and when the expression apple-pie order began.
say that Scottish and English writers use the expression a long time ago.
say it first was used in the northeastern American states known as New England.
housewives of New England cut their apples in even slices.


they filled pie pans with them in an organized way -- row upon row.
one writer said, the women of New England love to have everything in its place.
perhaps explains why it generally is believed that the expression Apple-Pie-Order began in
New England.
old expression describes the opposite condition -- wild disorder.
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