curate's egg

English

Etymology

From an 1895 cartoon in Punch, in which a timid curate assures his host, the bishop, that "parts" of his bad egg are excellent.

Noun

curate's egg (plural curates' eggs)

  1. (idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt by the bad.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.