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curate’s egg

cu·rate's egg (plural cu·rate's eggs)


noun 
Definition:
 
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

[< 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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