I love that people who use the phrase “a few bad apples” have literally no idea the idiom they are referencing. The full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch”.
it's the same people who talk about pulling oneself up by their own bootstraps, ignoring that the idiom was used as an example of an impossible task: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#:~:text=The%20saying%20%22to%20pull%20oneself,It%20is%20conjectured%20that%20Mr ….
