worm in the apple

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A serious flaw in something otherwise good; a problem that ruins everything else.
    — The worms in the apple, of course, are Baby Boom liberals who latched on to the one institution they could control—the university.

词形变化

worms in the apple plural
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