road apple

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road apple

n. a lump of horse excrement. (see also alley apple.) There must be horses around here. I see road apples.

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Road apples and meadow muffins would certainly be an improvement over the subject matter described in Jacoby's column.

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Sarah Phillips is once again at the business end of a broom, locked in an endless struggle to keep the aisles of the Lane County 4-H Youth Fair free of road apples.

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Foreshadowing Wells Fargo's decision to make road apples out of nearly 11,000 of its employees was an announcement a week earlier by the state's other beloved megabank, Bank of America, unveiling its plan to close 120 state branches and expunge 3,700 employees, or 4 percent of its work force.

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I put some road apples behind the horses here, and Joanne put in a dung heap," Martha called out.