This morning as I was preparing breakfast, I broke an
egg into a bowl, and it was rotten. The stench was so bad that I almost puked. Luckily,
I usually break eggs into separate bowls just in case it is bad and doesn't end
up ruining the other of the ingredients already being used. It had been a long
time since I had gotten a bad egg, however, this past week this is the second
one, which makes me contemplate whether there will be more.
As I was throwing it away and cleaning up the sink, I
started to think about the expression ‘a person is a rotten apple’. Nonetheless,
I started thinking why we don't say the person's a rotten egg instead. Are
rotten eggs or worse than apples? After some research I found out that there
are both expressions.
If we take a look at the definition of each expression
; a person whose own words or actions negatively impacts an entire group of
people taken from the proverb ‘ a rotten apple spoils the bunch’ is what you're
trying to say when you say the person is a rotten apple.
However, if you say the person's rotten egg or a bad
egg it means that this person is bad or despised ; an evil influence and right
now I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of which is worse because rotten
eggs really reek and stink up the whole house.
On the other hand, if you have a rotten apple in a bag
or in a basket, it starts spoiling the other apples that are touching it. But,
in this case, there is no smell. At least not one that I can describe or that I
can remember.
Needless to say , I do guess that these two
expressions have a certain weight to them and if I may place myself in the
shoes of that person who's being called a rotten egg or rotten apple, I would
rather be called a rotten apple. It just sounds less gross.
What do you think?
Written: March 7, 2021
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