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Eudora Thao
2020-12-23 06:12
The/a curate's egg British noun
Taken from a British cartoon about a priest who was given a bad egg but focused on the good features of the egg because he did not want to offend the individual who gave it to him. It's mainly heard in the UK.
A thing has partly good and partly bad parts.
In fact, the work has a curate's egg but we always choose partly good to do.
In my view, It's a bit of a curate's egg when lending money to someone.
To become better
People's arms linked together to show the intimacy between two people.
A child with great talent and intelligence will lose those qualities over time.
The egg of a curate is something that's partially good and partially bad. We're lucky to know the exact origin of the curate egg term. It can be traced back to a cartoon by George du Maurier published in the November 9, 1895, issue of Punch magazine.
Do you see anything wrong?
Come out of a difficult situation without a stain on one's character
I don't understand how he can fall in shit and come out smelling like a rose.
