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spoil (one) rotten
To cause one to expect to receive everything they want by always giving it to them. In this phrase, "rotten" is an intensifier. I think some grandparents believe it's their duty to spoil their grandchildren rotten.
spoil for (something)
To be particularly eager or enthusiastic for something, especially a fight, disagreement, or conflict. Tom seems to spoil for a fight the moment he's in the same room as me. I just don't know what it is about me that makes him so antagonistic. We've done everything we can to reach a reasonable compromise with the other party, but they have been spoiling for an argument at every turn.
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spoil
tv. to kill someone. It was Joel Cairo’s job to make sure that nobody got close enough to Mr. Big to spoil him.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
- a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
- a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
- a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
- be spoiled for choice
- be spoiling for (something)
- be spoiling for a fight
- be spoiling for a fight, argument, etc.
- be spoilt/spoiled for choice
- it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) barrel
- it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bunch
- it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bushel
- make a spoon or spoil a horn
- one bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
- one bad apple spoils the (whole) bunch
- one bad apple spoils the (whole) bushel
- one rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
- one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
- one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
- rotten apple
- rotten apple spoils the barrel
- rotten apple spoils the barrel, a
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- spoil
- spoil (one) rotten
- spoil for
- spoil for (something)
- spoil somebody rotten
- spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
- spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
- spoil the ship for a ha'porth/ha'penny-worth of tar
- spoiled for choice
- spoiled rotten
- spoiling for a fight
- spoils of war
- spoilsport
- to the victor belong the spoils
- to the victor go the spoils
- to the victor, the spoils
- To the victors belong the spoils
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- too many cooks spoil the soup
- Too many cooks spoil the stew