Usually means: Good in parts, overall flawed.
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  1. curate's egg: Merriam-Webster
  2. curate's egg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curate's egg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curate's egg, curate's egg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curate's egg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. curate's egg: Wiktionary
  7. curate's egg: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. curate's egg, curates egg: Dictionary.com
  9. Curate's egg, Curates egg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Curates Egg: The Word Detective
  11. curate's egg: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Curate's egg: World Wide Words
  13. Curate's egg: Phrase Finder

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  1. curate's egg: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoiled by the bad.


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