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What (who) is curate's egg - definition
Curate's egg
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IDIOM DERIVED FROM TWO NEAR-IDENTICAL 19TH CENTURY CARTOONS
A Curate's egg; Curates egg; Curate's Egg; Vicar's egg
A "curate's egg" is something described as partly bad and partly good. In its original usage, it referred to something that is obviously and entirely bad, but is described out of politeness as nonetheless having good features that redeem it.
curate's egg
IDIOM DERIVED FROM TWO NEAR-IDENTICAL 19TH CENTURY CARTOONS
A Curate's egg; Curates egg; Curate's Egg; Vicar's egg
Brit.
something that is partly good and partly bad. [from a cartoon in Punch (1895) depicting a meek curate who, given a stale egg when dining with the bishop, assures his host that 'parts of it are excellent'.]
EGG (file format)
FILE FORMAT
Egg file; .EGG; Egg format; Egg file format; Egg archive; Alzip egg; EGG (file compression); .egg
The EGG file format is a compressed archive file format that supports Unicode and intelligent compression algorithms. EGG format is created by ESTsoft and was first applied in their file compression software ALZip.
