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What does it mean by saying ‘to be a bad apple’?
Like: He is a bad apple. This phrase is directed to human beings in general.
Thanks for your help
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It has a negative connotation. It means you’re a bad person.
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Hundreds of years ago, apples were picked and placed in barrels for transporting to markets and other cities. Along the way, over bumpy roads, an apple here and there would get bruised or squashed open. This would cause other apples to become tainted, or bad, from being next to them. This is true with people also. I f you hang around a bruised or tainted person long enough, you start to become the same way….rotten.
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It simply means there is something wrong with them. No matter what people try to do for them , no matter how people try to help them .They are just no good. Like an apple, If you take it and make it into applesause, it may work out OK but without a lot of changes, it’s still a bad apple.
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Before today’s preservation methods apples were stored in a root cellar. One spoiled (bad) apple could quickly ruin an entire barrel. Since you could only pick the apples once a year (no supermarkets) this could mean going hungry.
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One bad apple- as in infected- will contaminate every apple in the same container.
Thus the saying is “One bad apple will spoil the bunch”.
It means- check your apples (the people in the group you are referring to) because one that has undesirable qualities will disgruntle the entire group.
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“A bad apple spoils the whole bunch”. That’s where the phrase comes from.
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bad apple in the sense u are the bad person who spoils the rest of ur fellow mates
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IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE EITHER,OR BOTH, A BAD/evil,and/or ‘troubled’ person….from old folksaying that “one bad apple can spoil(=’contiminate’ all of ) the rest”
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If someone is a ‘bad apple’, it means he’s not a good person. He has a history of bad behavior, or he’s “rotten”.
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it means the person is spoied n may spoil the others in his company
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