White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Sunday a “few bad apples” are to blame for issues of police brutality and denied that there is any systemic racism in U.S. a bad apple A person whose own words or actions negatively impacts an entire group of people.

After five minutes with my usually well-behaved kids, they're all acting out. Jeremy is really a bad apple. Depending on what precise sector is misbehaving the segments raising that cry may differ, but the cry itself is generally the same. The fruit from the next harvest in this orchard will become cider that is served … H ere is where the theory breaks down. 1) The apple originated in the so called ‘fruit forest’ of Eastern Europe The fruit would have been smaller and more bitter than the apples we eat today. Taken from the proverb "a bad apple spoils the bunch." a discontented, troublemaking, or dishonest person: In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few bad apples. We can’t blame all of them because of “a few bad apples.” What these people forget is the origin of the expression about bad apples. So, in this way, it is true that there are only a few bad apples. Travellers through the forest would have eaten the larger, sweeter apples, and started the process of selection, spreading pips across Europe and north into the Baltic regions.

Jeremy is really a bad apple. … After five minutes with my usually well-behaved kids, they're all acting out. Or take the one about "a few bad apples," the reflexive defense whenever misconduct surfaces in the midst of some organization, from Enron to Abu Ghraib to Haditha to the mortgage meltdown.

Taken from the proverb "a bad apple spoils the bunch." New challenges are ahead: Recently, A Few Bad Apples started pruning a stand of long-neglected apple trees — untouched for five decades — in Pittsburgh’s North Park. A person whose own words or actions negatively impacts an entire group of people. noun Informal.