bad apple

Categories: dictionary, noun

(noun) a bad person in a group

Example Sentences:

A: Do you like your new classmates?
B: Yeah, everyone is nice except for one bad apple. He answered his cellphone in class, and the teacher was very angry!

There was one bad apple in the movie theatre last night. This man at the back wouldn’t stop talking loudly. He was so rude!

Media:

bad apple

Similar idioms:

  1. turn over a new leaf
  2. kick someone out
  3. stop by
  4. stop in
  5. the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
  6. an apple a day keeps the doctor away
  7. rip someone off
  8. bite someone’s head off
  9. bring up
  10. riot

Copyright © 2011
Powered by WordPress