bad egg
坏蛋,坏鸡蛋,倒霉蛋,糟糕的鸡蛋
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- : a person who is bad, dishonest, or unreliable; a good-for-nothing: a bad egg who had served several years in prison.
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This an unnervingly compassionate portrait of a truly bad egg.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.
Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.