__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?
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27 days agoBut that isn’t the context that phrase is normally used in. That phrase is more like a euphemism for “I’m an asshole, but want it to sound like I’m not”
“it’s just a few bad apples”
That’s only half the saying. It is used most of the time as if the full thing is “a few bad apples aren’t a problem because the rest are fine” rather than the real thing “a few bad apples spoil the lot.”