Snowiest location ranked by highest average annual snowfall: Thompson Pass, southeastern Alaska, 551.5. State precipitation record for 24 hours - Angoon, southeastern Alaska, 10/12/1982, 15.20. State precipitation record for 1 year - MacLeod Harbor, southern Alaska, 1976, 332.29.
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.
While many idioms are relatively new, the origin of the idiom 'see eye to eye' is quite old; in fact, itâs ancient and is found in the Bible. In Isaiah 52:8, we read âThe voice of your watchmenâthey lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion.â. Prev Next.