2006-12-07 03:33:57 · 20 answers · asked by brainyluscious 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it means that it is hopeless to cure, fix, manage, etc..
2006-12-07 03:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you find an apple with one small bad spot, you might be able to cut that out and save the rest of the apple. But if it is rotten all the way through - down to the core - you can not save it. Something that is rotten to the core is bad all the way through and can not be saved.
2006-12-07 03:37:32 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just like a rotten apple - when it goes bad it goes rotten to the core. When used to reference a person in means they are bad, not just a little, right down to their very soul.
2006-12-07 03:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by Kathleen M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people say there is good in him deep down. Well rotten to the core means there is no good at all.
2006-12-07 03:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by Piper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a figure of speech referring to a rotten apple - a person who is "rotten to the core" has no redeeming qualities; he's all rotten
2006-12-07 03:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by teacherhelper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the olden days when settlers where cutting down trees to make their homes and for the winter firewood they would spend a lot of time cutting down a tree only to find it was rotten on the inside (or core) and was no good for anything. This wasn't good because of the amount of time it took to cut down a big tree.
2006-12-07 03:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by fr2fish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
similar to the saying bad to the bone. rotten to the core Means 100% rotten, frot, finisherd, burned out, going nowhere, stagnant, no hope dead inside. Expired. No good. Bad influence. He is not good news! ETC.
2006-12-07 03:44:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple that's rotten to its core is *truly* rotten. Get my drift?
2006-12-07 03:35:52 · answer #8 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of a rotting apple. Apples usually begin to rot on the outside, with the rot working its way all the way to the core of the apple. It is metaphor for someone, as a human being, who is bad inside and out.
2006-12-07 03:37:06 · answer #9 · answered by Darlene G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Means your Inside needs help It could be bitterness,scornfull ways revenge are a few.
There Is a song Jesus on the Inside and he Is working on the outside oh what a change In me.
I am going through a Inside change,I have a vengefull attitude and I needed to see this attitude In another person so that I can change myself with the Lords help and recieve his grace through faith In him and he has led me to victory,he gets the glory and I get the joy and the people that know me get the peace,and I trully mean they prayed and put up with me for years,talk about long suffering
2006-12-07 03:42:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apple core...100% rotten, threw and threw.
2006-12-07 03:36:39 · answer #11 · answered by steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋