| 单词 | rotten to the core |
| 释义 | rotten to the coreThoroughly bad, as in It seems that this police unit is rotten to the core, involved in numerous extortion schemes. The noun core here denotes the central part or heart of anything or anyone. The idiom was first recorded in 1804. Words nearby rotten to the corerotten apple, rotten borough, rotten egg, rotten ice, rottenstone, rotten to the core, rotter, Rotterdam, Rottweiler, rotund, rotunda The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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