单词 | curate's egg |
释义 | Word Frequency curate's eggnoun something that has both good and bad parts Word origin C20: derived from a cartoon in Punch (November, 1895) in which a timid curate, who has been served a bad egg while breakfastingwith his bishop, says that parts of the egg are excellent |
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