How do you like those apples

Posted by ESC January 15, 2011 at 00:39In reply to How do you like those apples posted by locopato on January 14, 2011 at 10:53:

Where does the phrase "how do you like those apples" come from?

We've mulled these apples around before and couldn't come up with an origin. "How do you like them apples?" means "So there! What do you have to say now? What are you going to do about it? Used ironically since the late 1920s." according to the Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman.