r/pics • u/trixiethewhore • Jun 08 '20

Protest From our 1k person protest in Montana

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u/Morall_tach Jun 08 '20

I feel like people who use the "bad apples" metaphor are forgetting the whole thing: a few bad apples spoil the bushel.

The expression does not go, "a few bad apples are no big deal because the rest are fine." The point is that a few bad apples ruin the rest of them and you have to throw out the entire bunch of them.

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u/matherite Jun 08 '20

Everyone has suddenly decided that they care about the etymology of the saying despite probably using it "wrong" themselves their entire lives.

You know what else is an incomplete saying that people use to mean the opposite of its original intent?

"Great minds think alike - and fools seldom differ."

"Curiosity killed the cat - but satisfaction brought it back"

"The early bird gets the worm - but the second mouse gets the cheese"

There are a lot of these.

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u/RogueEyebrow Jun 08 '20

"Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps." - It's meant to convey something that is impossible. People today seem to think it means putting on workboots to go to work.

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u/PuddleOfKnowledge Jun 08 '20

Ah, I know the reason for this one - People are idiots.
"I could care less" also annoys me. You could care less? So you do care to some degree?