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Bad egg   /bæd ɛg/   Listen
Bad egg

noun
1.
(old-fashioned slang) a bad person.





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"Bad egg" Quotes from Famous Books



... down by Foyle's side and went on: "I was always what you English call a bad egg. I broke with my family many years ago—it doesn't matter who they were—and left Russia to become an adventurer at large. In the years that followed I was everything everywhere—seaman, barber, waiter, soldier, and gambling-house cheat. I wasn't particular how I picked up a ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest


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