curate's egg

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkjʊəɹətz ˌɛɡ/|/-ɹɪtz/    美 /ˈkjʊɹɪtz ˌɛɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoiled by the bad. idiomatic
    — We cannot say we are uniformly favourably impressed with such portions of the work as we have read. The work strikes us as being rather unequal. Like the curate's egg, parts of it are excellent, but parts provide bad material for assimilation.

词形变化

curates' eggs plural

词源

From a cartoon by the Franco-British cartoonist and author George Du Maurier (1834–1896) captioned “True Humility” in the 9 November 1895 issue of Punch magazine, in which a bishop says to his mealtime guest, a curate, “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr. Jones!” The timid curate replies, “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!”.
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