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like the curate’s egg. Something satisfactory in some ways but not in others: “The play was rather like the curate’s egg.” The expression originated with a story in the British magazine Punch (November 9, 1895) in which a timid curate had been served a bad egg while dining at the home of an important pa- rishioner. He is asked how the egg tastes and, not wishing to of- fend his host, says that parts of it are excellent. |