the fish rots from the head

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Etymology[edit]

Unknown. Found in the Adages of Erasmus as "Piscis primum a capite foetet" ("The fish stinks first from the head").[1]

Proverb[edit]

the fish rots from the head

  1. Bad leaders harm an organization.

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