rotten\ to\ the\ core

rotten\ to\ the\ core
adj. phr.
1. thoroughly decayed or spoiled.

This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core.

2. In total moral collapse.

The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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