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apples

[ap-uhlz]

adjective

Australian Slang.
  1. well or fine; under control.



apples

/ ˈæpəlz /

plural noun

  1. See apples and pears

  2. informal,  all is going well

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The tree tends to produce more apples than it can handle, so growers must thin out the fruit.

We worked hard as a family picking eastern Washington crops: cherries, apples, plums, grapes.

Colleges and universities may object that I’m comparing apples and oranges.

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Many Sonoma growers had historically considered grapes a crop of last resort, compared with more profitable apples, prunes and olives.

During apple season, neighbors drop barrels of seedling apples on the lawn for Kaiser’s experiments.

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