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bad egg

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a bad egg (mainly American, informal)

someone who behaves in a bad or dishonest way. He's a bad egg - don't believe anything he says.

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Whin a bad egg is shut av the Army, he sings the Divil's Mass for a good riddance; an' that manes swearin' at ivrything from the Commandher-in-Chief down to the Room-Corp'ril, such as you niver in your days heard. The Big Drunk Draf' by Kipling, Rudyard View in context More results

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