bad apple | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,often in theplural)A person who is notwholesome,honest, ortrustworthy, especially one who has anadverseinfluenceon others.1956March 19, “Echoing Ring (book review ofBang the Drum Slowlyby Mark Harris)”, inTime‎[1], archived fromthe originalon11 March 2012:There is onebad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ.2003October 5, Steven Greenhouse, “Unions See Politics in New Disclosure Rules”, inNew York Times‎[2]:While most union leaders are people of integrity, there are stillbad apples.2006January 27, Jeff Madrick, “Wall Street: More than few bad apples”, inNew York Times‎[3]:If anyone still harbors the fantasy that the business scandals of the past few years were the handiwork of just a fewbad apples, they should read John Bogle's "Battle for the Soul of Capitalism."

Examples:

EN: If you're covering for that bad apple... you're in one hell of a jam.
ES: Si estás tratando de encubrir a ese sinverguenza... te vas a meter en un buen lío.
EN: Lasky Bell's a bad apple, you know that?
ES: Lasky no es un buen cliente, ya sabes.
EN: No, he's an employee just like me, except he's a bad apple.
ES: No, es un empleado igual que yo, nomás que de muy mal carácter.
EN: I may sound crazy, but how can I let it close? And I mustn't put a bad apple in a bushel of good ones.
ES: ¿Y yo cómo podría resistir las consecuencias de saber que pongo una pera podrida en un cesto para examen?
EN: But Pete didn't want to alert the people at Vectrocon Systems in case Simmons wasn't the company's only bad apple.
ES: Pero Pete no quería alertar a los de Vectrocon Systems por si Simmons no era la única manzana podrida.
EN: Well, look, there's a bad apple in every barrel, right?
ES: Bueno, mira, hay manzanas podridas en todos lados, ¿no?
EN: That's the one where there's a bad apple in the CIA. He tries to kill Robert Redford 'cause he knows too much.
ES: En la película, un malhechor de la CIA quiere asesinar a Robert Redford por lo que sabe.
EN: Not a bad apple in the bunch, right?
ES: No hay ninguno podrido en el grupo, ¿verdad?
EN: I'm a bad apple.
ES: Soy una manzana podrida.
EN: One bad apple can screw up the whole thing.
ES: Una manzana podrida puede pudrir a las demás, ¿me entiendes?
EN: They say one bad apple spoils the bunch.
ES: Dicen que una sola... manzana podrida echa a perder al resto.
EN: Man: My son ain't no bad apple!
ES: ¡Mi hijo no es una manzana podrida!
EN: Well, Lieutenant, if this is who I think it is, this is one bad apple.
ES: Teniente, si este es quien creo que es, se trata de una manzana podrida.
EN: One bad apple and all the others rot.
ES: La manzana podrida, corrompe a las demás.
EN: Farrow finds a bad apple in our barrel and that makes his career.
ES: Para ascender, necesita encontrar una manzana podrida en esta cesta.

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