Almost nobody understands "bootstraps" either so....
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They absolutely don't, just like how "blood is thicker than water" and "curiosity killed the cat" is used to mean the exact opposite of the statement the idiom came from
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I honestly don't know Cops & defenders have been using 'just a few bad apples' as shorthand to compartmentalize the issue as individual failure since at least the '90s, so this sense may have flooded the zone It could have been an intentional inversion Cops aren't real bright
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Yeah...but who the hell keeps their apples in a barrel nowadays? In other news: just bought half a barrel-load of apples that i shall turn into compote over the weekend. I shall likely add sultanas. I have no idea what sultanas represent in this metaphor...
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I can't express how much I enjoy reading your 3am corny jokes Jane
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My mother tried arguing with me that one rotten apple does not spoil the whole bunch.. “like the saying”


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i guess they can twist it to mean "just get rid of the bad apple and it's all fine"
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