early ripe, early rotten Idiom, Proverb

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rotten to the core

all bad, corrupt Hitler's regime was rotten to the core - corrupt.

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something is rotten...

(See there's something rotten in the state of Denmark)

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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."""

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A rotten apple spoils the barrel.

A dishonest or immoral person can have a bad influence on a group.

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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!"

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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.

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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).

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rotten egg

rotten egg
see under bad egg.

early ripe, aboriginal rotten

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Early ripe, aboriginal rotten,

 and Soon ripe, anon rotten.Prov. A adolescent with amazing aptitude or intelligence will apparently lose those qualities by the time he or she grows up. Jill: Philip was such a accomplished adolescent boy; I'm abashed he's become such a good-for-nothing adult. Jane: Aboriginal ripe, aboriginal rotten. Jane: You charge be actual appreciative of your little boy. He seems so complete for his age. Ellen: I'm abashed it won't last. You apperceive what they say: "Soon ripe, anon rotten."Learn more: early, rotten

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