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Idiom: Apple Of Someone's Eye

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Deuteronomy 32:10, where it translates Biblical Hebrew אִישׁוֹן עֵינוֹ‎ (ʾîšôn ʿênô, literally “the pupil of his eye”)[1]; from Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye (“eyeball; the visible part of the eye; pupil”), a dissimilated variant of Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). Compare English eye-apple.

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A favourite, a particular preference, or a loved one; the object of somebody's affections.

Example: "Sara was never the same after losing her daughter, the apple of her eye."

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