Deceptichum@quokk.au to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoacabquokk.auimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1398arrow-down111
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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·2 days 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-squareToastedRavioli@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 days agoIt actually derives from the phrase “the rotten apple quickly spoils his companion”, which is more to your point
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days 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’.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoṠ̶̡P̸̧̡̗͛̋̉̅O̶̙̪̒̈́̌̏Ĺ̷̰͉͚̑̀̏I̵̲̮͋̄A̵̬̼̠̔͒̓͠Ṫ̸̬͈͌I̶͚̓͜Ö̸̪́̋N̷̲̜̈̂
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoyou’ve inadvertently summoned my familiar:
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.
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’.
Ṡ̶̡P̸̧̡̗͛̋̉̅O̶̙̪̒̈́̌̏Ĺ̷̰͉͚̑̀̏I̵̲̮͋̄A̵̬̼̠̔͒̓͠Ṫ̸̬͈͌I̶͚̓͜Ö̸̪́̋N̷̲̜̈̂
you’ve inadvertently summoned my familiar: