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单词 a rotten (or bad) apple
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a rotten (or bad) apple

informal A bad or corrupt person in a group, especially one whose behaviour is likely to have a detrimental influence on the others: chartered accountants have no time for rotten apples in their professional barrel looks like we hired ourselves a bad apple...
  • That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel.
  • Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples.
  • Some reports list the officers and agencies responsible by name, but they are likely never to be considered bad apples, but only the custodians of a barrel that had some defects.
With reference to the effect that a rotten apple has on fruit with which it is in contact
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