| 单词 | bad egg |
| 释义 | bad egg (once / 30306 pages) n Calling someone a bad egg is a mild, old-fashioned way to say he's a jerk. The school bully is a good example of a bad egg. A bad egg is not a nice person — she's as unpleasant and disappointing as a literal bad, or spoiled, egg would be when you cracked it open. That's most likely where the figurative phrase came from, and it may have started as British public school slang. Other experts have found the earliest mentions of bad egg in American newspapers in the mid-1800's. There is also an English playground game called bad egg. WORD FAMILYbad egg: bad eggs USAGE EXAMPLESAll that’s missing is the groggy Sunday brunch with the bad eggs. Wall Street Journal(Oct 12, 2016) Selling more tickets is only going to increase the odds of having more bad eggs who give American fans a bad name. Washington Times(Oct 04, 2016) “There are always going to be a few bad eggs in any group you can’t the message to.” Time(Oct 01, 2016) n (old-fashioned slang) a bad person Ant|Hyper good egg (old-fashioned slang) a good person bad person a person who does harm to others |
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