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They called Wall Street trading desks and asked for menus of subprime mortgage bonds, so they might find the most rotten ones and buy the smartest insurance.

By the time the homicidal aberration tears out of her like an angry insect from a rotten apple, Matty’s fate is already sealed.

“You young cows are spoiled rotten,” she said.

Hamlet’s friend Marcellus famously warned him that there was “something rotten in the state of Denmark” before his empire collapsed around him.

"It's always been a rotten apple, not a rotten barrel," she said.