Having collected a suitable variety and quantity of apples (10kg will easily produce enough juice to fill a demi-john) you will need to wash them thoroughly, remove any rotten bits and cut them into quarters.
The clear-cut rotten apples in the mix included an increase in bad debts in the finance arm and losses in the company's venture capital portfolio stemming from the woes of dot-com start-ups in which Hewlett-Packard had a stake.
The old chestnut tree visible from Anne Frank's attic window in Amsterdam that comforted her as she hid from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944 is diseased and rotten and must be cut down, the city council said.
The night Leda has arrived at the place she has rented for the summer, after watching the sun set on her terrace, reflecting on all that her daughters have taken from her, she returns to her room to find that the plate of fruit left for her is rotten; she tries to "cut off large black areas" but is disgusted by the smell.
During the recent wretched sausage-making on Capitol Hill to raise the debt limit, which rotten product -- all cuts and no revenue, not even loophole-closing -- was rammed through by the Republicans, Congressman Eric Cantor (R.-VA) was contacted by various of his wealthy backers with a tantalizing offer.
More promising may be a push into private banking, which needs less capital.Chop chopIf HSBC cannot grow into something more coherent and profitable it will have to do what almost all tired conglomerates do at some point: take a hard look at its portfolio and cut off the rotten bits.
There's no need to go to Yahoo when Apple can just go straight to Yelp or Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB and cut out any go-betweens.
Do the Democrats even want to be a force in a session that involves bloody budget cuts and other rotten choices?
Something was rotten in Noodle Bar, and he meant to cut it out and destroy it before it was too late.
Sometimes, you may get a bad cut of meat or a slightly rotten fruit.
"He was not a cucumber that we could cut open to know that he was rotten inside," the father testified.
