which means to be adored by someone. A similar expression that uses the apple is the Italianessere l’altra metà della mela(literally “to be the other half of the apple”), referring
In 1766 one Mr Loop, near the Royal Exchange, defied any barber or wig-maker in the country to equal his ‘hollow cork wigs, waterproof, in the Italian taste, for travellers’. Clearly sitting in a soggy wig, as well as bedraggled clothes, on a rough sea crossing was neither an ...
the "aversion to inequality"; • Theil index (T) that gives equal weights across the distribution; • Mean logarithmic deviation (MLD), which is more sensitive to changes at the lower end of the distribution, while CV is more responsive to changes in the upper end of the distribution. ...