What is "bad apples"

Usage examples of "bad apples".

Of course, some packers and repackers of orange juice -- most often the distributors of regional and private-label brands -- have been known to bend the rules, but unfortunately these bad apples (I know, poor choice of words) can't be detected by close label reading.

That may involve shaking a fewtrees and looking for the bad apples from time to time.

The newbies had their feet under them, the best of the experienced hands had been given time to pass along their own skills, the bad apples were in the brig, reformed, or keeping a very low profile, and department efficiency ratings were closing in on a uniform 4.

The personnel officer alone had the perfect opportunity to pick out all the bad apples and concentrate them in one barrel.

By putting away the few bad apples in the barrel, one could say I was sort of helping the majority of the folk I meet.