Apple doesn't fall far from the tree

[maidon]

Can someone please explain the above saying - heard it in the tv programme Cape Wrath last week.

thanks

[Goodsoulette]

its like a chip off the old block. Kids are like their parents, that sort of thing.

[pollyspeed]

the saying is usually "a bad apple doesnt fall far from the tree" meaning that if the parent is bad (the tree) then the children (the apples) even when they fall off and leave the tree are still likely to bad.

[Goodsoulette]

its not, its on bad apple spoils the bunch and the apple doesnt fall far from the tree. If you google a bad apple doesnt fall far from the tree you will just get lots of references to an apple never falls far from the tree.

[Aschenbach]

This was also used in Batman Begins recently when a dinner guest says 'The apple has fallen very far from the tree, Mr. Wayne' i.e. he is a poor reflection on his well-respected parents.

[maidon]

thank you

donna

[geo0939]

It simply means that the offspring (fruit) are inclined to inherit the traits of the parents.

[Quizmonkey]

As I mentioned to someone just a week ago or so on this site, check out the song with the same title from Kander and Ebb's musical The Rink. Sung by an estranged mother and daughter who discover they have more in common than they thought.

[VS Prasad]

Idioms: "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" -

kids are like their parents; a chip off the old block; like father, like son.

Example:

I looked at the father, then at the son, and I thought, The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.