rott Idiom
full throttle
gas pedal to the floor, pedal to the metal He drove the Mercedes at full throttle on the freeway.
rotten to the core
all bad, corrupt Hitler's regime was rotten to the core - corrupt.
rotter
one who cheats or lies, dirty rat Hank, you rotter! You sold me a car that won't start.
something is rotten...
(See there's something rotten in the state of Denmark)
there's something rotten in the state of Denmark
something is wrong, something is strange, there's something fishy "Father knew I was tricking him. He said, ""Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."""
bogtrotter
derogatory term for an Irish person
A rotten apple spoils the barrel.
A dishonest or immoral person can have a bad influence on a group.
globe-trotter|globe|trotter
n. One who has travelled far and wide.
Tim and Nancy are regular globe-trotters; there are few countries they haven't been to.
rotten egg|egg|rotten
n.,
informal A person whose character or way of acting is not good.
His friends have all learned he is a rotten egg. Often used by children in fun, as of someone who is slow in doing something.
The boys ran to the river to go swimming and Dick cried, "Last one in is a rotten egg!"
rotten to the core|core|rotten|to the core
adj. phr. 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled.
This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core. 2. In total moral collapse.
The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core.
rotten apple
rotten apple A bad individual among many good ones, especially one that spoils the group. For example,
The roommates are having problems with Edith—she's the one rotten apple of the bunch. This expression is a shortening of the proverb
a rotten apple spoils the barrel, coming from a 14th-century Latin proverb translated as “The rotten apple injures its neighbors.” The allusion in this idiom is to the spread of mold or other diseases from one apple to the rest. In English the first recorded use was in Benjamin Franklin's
Poor Richard's Almanack (1736).
rotten egg
rotten egg see under
bad egg.