• PixellatedDave@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yes the real meaning is that a few bad apples WILL spoil the whole barrel if they don’t get removed. I don’t know where the other meaning came from but if you leave rotting apples with good apples then they will all go rotten quite quickly.