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curate's egg

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curate's egg

 
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–noun British.
something discreetly declared to be partly good but in fact thoroughly bad.
Origin:
after a cartoon by G. du Maurier in the English humor weekly Punch (Nov. 9, 1895): a meek curate, when served a bad egg at the bishop's table, replies that “parts of it are excellent”
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cu·rate's egg   (kyŏŏr'ĭts)   
n.   Chiefly British
Something with both good and bad qualities.

[From a story in Punch about a curate who, having been served a bad egg by his bishop, said that parts of it were excellent.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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