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Meanings of rotten apples in English

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Usage of rotten apples in English
1
Yes, but I exchanged the fowl for a sack of rotten apples.
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Gr...
2
Girls and prisoners were often like comparing rotten apples and rotten oranges.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
3
Meat stuck on wharves, fears over contaminated milk and now, rotten apples.
Radio NZ
4
Voices in the passage, a smell like rotten apples, a tray that clattered.
Mary Olivier: a Life
5
He and his father spear rotten apples and toss them over the fence.
The new yorker
6
My dear young man, how wildly you throw your rotten apples.
The Bride of Dreams
7
Mr Zhu said corrupt local governments were like rotten apples.
The Irish Times
8
According to Mrs. James, we were both bad as a barrel of rotten apples.
Outpost
9
The smell of rotten apples came towards you through the open door of the dining-room.
Mary Olivier: a Life
10
Someone's going to come with rotten apples or something.
Carrie
11
The last time we were there, Dodo and I, I found two old rotten apples.
Molly Brown's Senior Days
12
It still looked like a bag-ful of rotten apples.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
13
Hurl rotten apples, bad eggs, at the empty-pated idiot!
A Reckless Character, and Other Stories
14
The state capture inquiry has been relentless in identifying the rotten apples embroiled in government graft.
The South African
15
ICAP's founder and chief executive blamed " rotten apples" who no longer worked for him.
Reuters
16
Besides, all those rotten apples broke his fall.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common