{"id":72767,"date":"2019-11-06T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72767"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:04:16","slug":"bad-egg-bad-apple-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/bad-egg-bad-apple-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Egg | Bad Apple | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression<strong> bad egg<\/strong> is used to refer to a person who behaves rudely or does bad things. Needless to say, bad eggs are not very popular in their locality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0My mother didn\u2019t want me to marry Ravi. She thought that he was a bad egg.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Peter was such a bad egg that nobody liked him.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0There are quite a few bad eggs in my neighbourhood. I\u2019m thinking about moving out.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Although he is known to be a bad egg, I haven\u2019t had any problems with him.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Varun is a bad egg \u2013 don\u2019t trust him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A bad \/ rotten apple<\/h3>\n<p>A bad or rotten apple is a bad person in a group of good people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0You will find an occasional bad apple in every family.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0If he hails from a family of eminent scholars and professionals, how could he become such a rotten apple?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression bad egg is used to refer to a person who behaves rudely or does bad things. Needless to say, bad eggs are not very popular in their locality. \u00a0My mother didn\u2019t want&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1827,1826,393,1828],"class_list":["post-72767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-bad-apple","tag-bad-egg","tag-english-idioms","tag-rotten-egg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72768,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72767\/revisions\/72768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}