how do you like them apples

Meaning

Phrase

• directed jestingly or mockingly at someone who has received surprising information, ridiculing the situation
• Used after an actual or proposed action with which the listener might be displeased. Also used after refuting an argument.

Origin

• "How do you like them apples?” is an expression that supposedly originated during the first World War, when the Allies' anti-tank grenade was colloquially called a “toffee apple” because of its bulb-like appearance on a stick. The phrase was a taunt against the enemy.