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Old 22-Jun-2005, 21:29
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Default Re: How do you like them apples?

I'm not able to tell you the origin of this idiom, but I can tell you its usage and connotation in American English. It is something you say when you get revenge against someone who thought he was better than you. The use of the word them instead of those intensifies the revenge because the snob was beaten by an unsophisticated person.
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