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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·1 day agoThe… phrase that ‘just a few bad apples’… derives from… … is: ‘A few bad apples spoil the bunch’. Because that’s how spoilage of fruit works, literally. The bootlickers often forget how their own aphorisms work.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoṠ̶̡P̸̧̡̗͛̋̉̅O̶̙̪̒̈́̌̏Ĺ̷̰͉͚̑̀̏I̵̲̮͋̄A̵̬̼̠̔͒̓͠Ṫ̸̬͈͌I̶͚̓͜Ö̸̪́̋N̷̲̜̈̂
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoyou’ve inadvertently summoned my familiar:
minus-squareToastedRavioli@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 day agoIt actually derives from the phrase “the rotten apple quickly spoils his companion”, which is more to your point
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoThe version I heard from my grandparents always had the phrase ‘bunch’ in it, as a group noun. But, apparently, there are old variants that use ‘neighbor’, ‘companion’, ‘bunch’ and ‘barrel’.
The… phrase that ‘just a few bad apples’… derives from…
… is: ‘A few bad apples spoil the bunch’.
Because that’s how spoilage of fruit works, literally.
The bootlickers often forget how their own aphorisms work.
Ṡ̶̡P̸̧̡̗͛̋̉̅O̶̙̪̒̈́̌̏Ĺ̷̰͉͚̑̀̏I̵̲̮͋̄A̵̬̼̠̔͒̓͠Ṫ̸̬͈͌I̶͚̓͜Ö̸̪́̋N̷̲̜̈̂
you’ve inadvertently summoned my familiar:
It actually derives from the phrase “the rotten apple quickly spoils his companion”, which is more to your point
The version I heard from my grandparents always had the phrase ‘bunch’ in it, as a group noun.
But, apparently, there are old variants that use ‘neighbor’, ‘companion’, ‘bunch’ and ‘barrel’.