VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Big Apple

Meaning:

An informal name for New York City

Examples:

  • New York is called the Big Apple.
  • The Big Apple, it took 150 years to get to eight million people.
  • We call New York the Big Apple.
  • The Big Apple has 8.5 million people and an annual budget of 80 billion dollars.
  • A group of New Yorkers meets here every Friday to reminisce about the Big Apple.
  • The small-town man has finally found his feet in the Big Apple.
  • He had these big cheeks, these big apple cheeks and this wheat-blond hair, and he seemed so sweet.
  • Look at this! Have you ever seen such a big apple?