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You're right. Mr Cook has good reason to P45 (British pink slip) the UK legal team for their poor advice, but a fish rots from the head.
by bitcartel 14y ago
You're right. Mr Cook has good reason to P45 (British pink slip) the UK legal team for their poor advice, but a fish rots from the head.
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- Groxx 14y agoBut gangrene frequently afflicts extremities. And fish heads are not often replaceable. Metaphors often (generally?) make poor arguments for why X does Y.
- JabavuAdams 14y agoMore generally, aphorisms and allegory are specifically created to prove a point. They can never constitute evidence, only persuasion. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese, and all that.
- jlgreco 14y agoPerhaps a good expression is "A few bad Apple employees^W^Wapples spoil the barrel". In other words, the decay started by a few will quickly rot an entire batch, if the good and the bad are kept together too long.