Healthy language

How many fruit idioms do you know? Here are 10 of them!

You may not have a healthy diet, and fruit may not be part of your everyday intake, and that’s all right. We’re not here to judge! But we are here to tell you there’s an alternative way to enjoy fruit every day. Want to know what it is? It’s language. There are plenty of idioms that include fruit, and we’ve gathered a bunch of them for you to revisit here. Ready? Go bananas with this article!

Do you have a special someone? Maybe a person who brightens your day by simply looking at them. Well, that’s the apple of your eye. This expression means someone is very special to or cherished by you. The redness of the apple, ever connected to love and emotional connection, explains why this fruit was the chosen one for this idiom, right?

If you paid close attention to the intro here, we wish you had gone bananas on this article. And if you are a daily reader of our blog, you’ll know the kind of excitement this idiom refers to. You know when you get that email saying your article of the day is ready for you to tackle? Well, that’s the feeling! Excitement? That’s too plain. "Go bananas" describes it better!

As much as one tries to deny it, we’ve all been in a situation where jealousy takes over, right? Imagine being a sports person and losing a match, you could say, "Well, they won, but that’s just because they got lucky!" Is that real or sour grapes? In other words, are you being realistic or simply jealous? That’s what the sour grapes refer to.

You had a great week at your job, everything went right on track, and the cherry on top is that you got a trip plan for the weekend. The cherry, red and delicious as it looks and tastes, is the representation of the final touch that makes something great or even greater.

You’re on that trip that is the cherry on top of your exhausting week, and you went to a beautiful retreat. Can you imagine how you would feel? Is the expression "as cool as a cucumber" appropriate? It probably is, since this idiom refers to feeling calm and very relaxed. Why? Well, because the cucumber is quite a fresh fruit. Who hasn't used it to reduce the puffiness in the eyes?

In every group of any kind, there’s always that person who is always causing trouble, raising problems where there were none. Conflict follows them, and they spread it around. Maybe it’s not their intention, but it happens, and that’s what we call a bad apple. Those trouble-makers we love and hate at the same time. Do you know any?

Here is an example of this one, see if you can guess what it means: "Their plant to sneak out in the middle of the night went pear-shaped when the mother saw them." Imagine the embarrassment! But this expression is not about that exactly, but a way of saying things did not go as planned or that they went wrong. Did anything go pear-shaped for you today?

There are jobs… And jobs! Who wouldn’t like to be a librarian, arranging books in a quiet space surrounded by bookworms alike? Well, that may not be the case for you, but it sure is a plum job, which is an alternative way of saying that it’s a dream job or at least an easy and desirable one.

We mentioned the troublemaker earlier, but as soon as we can identify the one that takes on that role in every group, we can also point to the one who is a natural leader. Every single group has a top banana! Wait, what? Exactly, the top banana is that natural boss that stands out from the rest, thanks to their dominant personality.

There are many more, but let’s close this article with an easy, light-hearted one. What did you think of it? Hope you thought it was peachy keen, or, in other words, a great one! And let’s hope that these expressions help you get your daily fruit intake. See you in the next article!

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Are they really related? 6 bands with family members

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Just because someone presents themselves as "brothers" in the showbiz, does not mean they are related by blood. The same goes for many other fake relationships invented for the sake of having a compelling storyline for the public. The following six bands suggested a family connection among its members. Can you tell which ones were real?

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Let us start this list with a very popular American pop band formed in the 1970s, and responsible for launching the career of Michael Jackson. Were the Jackson 5 really related?

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The Walker Brothers were an American pop group from the 1960s that made it big in Great Britain where they had several Top 10 albums and singles there, including the No. 1 hits "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)".

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The Beach Boys were formed -unsurprisingly- in California in 1961 and swept over the country with their brand of surf pop-rock with great hooks and distinctive vocal harmonies.

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The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band also formed in California, in 1970, and also known for having great vocal harmonies and their flexibility in performing across numerous genres.

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The kingpins of the disco era, The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958, famous for songs like "Stayin’ Alive", "How Deep is Your Love", or "Night Fever".

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The White Stripes were an American rock duo comprised of a drummer and singer/guitar player formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1997 and responsible for the hit song "Seven Nation Army" among other famous tunes.

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Yes, the Jackson 5 was a family band started by members of the Jackson family and it included Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael Jackson. The band was even managed by their father, Joe Jackson.

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No, the Walker brothers were not really brothers and they adopted the moniker as a show business touch even though they were unrelated. The band was responsible for launching the career of Scott Walker -who apparently liked the pseudonym enough to make it his own- one of the greatest and most elegant voices of rock and roll.

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The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and a mutual friend, Al Jardine, for good measure.

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The Doobie Brothers have been around for a long time now and have had many members among its ranks but no, they are not related by blood to each other. The name was suggested by a mutual friend a the start of their career.

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Yes, the Bee Gees were formed by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Their name is the initials of Barry Gibb, spelled phonetically.

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This one takes the cake as the strangest one. Drummer Meg and singer/guitarist Jack claimed to be brother and sister at the start of their career but it was soon found out that they were actually a former couple who had divorced and kept playing together.