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| cu·rate's egg (plural cu·rate's eggs) |
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U.K. something with good and bad parts: something that may be described as only partly bad, especially when this makes the whole thing unacceptable
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| [< a cartoon in Punch magazine, 1895, in which a curate, when served a bad egg at the bishop's table, assured his host that "parts of it are excellent"] |
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