CUTRATE'S EGG

PRONUNCIATION: (KYOOR-itz eg)

MEANING: noun: Something having both good and bad parts.

ETYMOLOGY:
From a cartoon in Punch magazine (London, UK) in which a timid curate (a junior clergy member), when served a stale egg at a bishop's table, tries to assure his host that parts of the egg are edible. Earliest documented use: 1905.

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CUTRATE'S EGG - it has more bad parts than good parts, but at least it's inexpensive