Bad apple

[nq:1]Reviewing the latest accounts of British soldiers abusing Iraqis, I'm wondering what the "bad apple" metaphor is all about. How does it go "One bad apple reflects badly on the whole barrel"?[/nq]
No: the central idea is that a single bad apple will in time corrupt all the apples in the barrel.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Matti Lamprhey wrote on 20 Jan 2005:
[nq:1]Reviewing the latest accounts of British soldiers abusing Iraqis, I'm wondering what the "bad apple" metaphor is all about. How does it go "One bad apple reflects badly on the whole barrel"?[/nq]
"One bad (rotten) apple spoils the barrel."

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CyberCypher filted:
[nq:1]Matti Lamprhey wrote on 20 Jan 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]Reviewing the latest accounts of British soldiers abusing Iraqis, I'm ... "One bad apple reflects badly on the whole barrel"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"One bad (rotten) apple spoils the barrel."[/nq]
Or if you're from Utah:
I can tell you've been hurt
by that look on your face, girl.
Some guy brought sad into y

On 20 Jan 2005 02:07:05 GMT, CyberCypher
[nq:1]"One bad (rotten) apple spoils the barrel."[/nq]
Does that also apply to a barrel of monkeys?

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How about a barrel of fish?

R. J. Valentine

R H Draney wrote on 20 Jan 2005:
[nq:1]CyberCypher filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Matti Lamprhey wrote on 20 Jan 2005: "One bad (rotten) apple spoils the barrel."[/nq]
[nq:1]Or if you're from Utah: I can tell you've been hurt by that look on your face, girl. Some guy ... girl.. (Nobody's going to believe me, but that closing ellipsis was there before I cut and pasted the whole lyric)..r[/nq]
I

CyberCypher filted:
[nq:1]R H Draney wrote on 20 Jan 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2](Nobody's going to believe me, but that closing ellipsis was there before I cut and pasted the whole lyric)..r[/nq]
[nq:1]I believe you. I wish the ellipsis had been used right after the word "tell" and that we'd been spared these most unlyrical lyrics. No wonder Utah's the way it is.[/nq]
This song holds a speci

[nq:2]"One bad (rotten) apple spoils the barrel."[/nq]
[nq:1]Does that also apply to a barrel of monkeys?[/nq]
Yes. (I'm assuming "barrel of monkeys" is a metaphor for a high-school class.)

Jerry Friedman

[nq:2]Reviewing the latest accounts of British soldiers abusing Iraqis, I'm ... "One bad apple reflects badly on the whole barrel"?[/nq]
[nq:1]No: the central idea is that a single bad apple will in time corrupt all the apples in the barrel.[/nq]
The reason for it has been discovered in the meantime. It is ethene gas (better known informaly as ethylene) given of by rotting apples,
whic

[nq:2]No: the central idea is that a single bad apple will in time corrupt all the apples in the barrel.[/nq]
[nq:1]The reason for it has been discovered in the meantime. It is ethene gas (better known informaly as ethylene) given ... has made long storage of apples possible, in warehouses with a controlled atmospphere from which the ethene is removed continually,[/nq]
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