Now she was depicted as something more malevolent and familiar: the bad seed.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

Teaching is a team effort (or at least it ought to be) and one bad seed brings the whole team down.

FORBES: Teachers and Incentives

"Bad weather in spring prevented honey bees in many areas from collecting nectar from early flowering crops such as oil seed rape, and the rain continued in many places throughout June and July preventing honey bees from foraging on later crops, " he said.

BBC: Honey harvest 'devastated' by wet summer