what is the origin of apple of my eye
Origin. 'The apple of my eye' is exceedingly old and first appears in Old English in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, AD 885, titled Gregory's Pastoral Care.he phrase was known from those early sources but became more widely used in the general population when Sir Walter Scott included it in the popular novel Old Mortality, 1816: Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye.. See also-phrases coined by Sir Walter Scott.