“The apple of one's eye”in other languages
The person you love and protect above everyone else.
English
French
Spanish
Urdu
EnglishFrenchSpanishUrduSame idea, different pictures
Most of these are about the eye, the most precious and delicate thing you have. In old English the “apple” of the eye was the pupil, and the phrase is in the King James Bible: God kept his people “as the apple of his eye”. French guards something like the prunelle of its eyes, the pupil again.
Urdu calls a loved one the star of the eyes, aankhon ka tara. Spanish makes it a little right eye, ojito derecho, the favorite, often said of a child.
More sayings in other languages
- At cross purposes
- At full tilt
- At the top of one's lungs
- Avoid like the plague
- Bail someone out
- Bang one's head against a brick wall
- Bark up the wrong tree
- Be bone idle
- Be in the know