a curate's egg



a curate's egg

  (British)
something which has both good and bad parts
Usage notes: A curate is a priest. There is a joke about a curate who was given a bad egg and said that parts of the egg were good because he did not want to offend the person who gave it to him.
Queen's College is something of a curate's egg, with elegant Victorian buildings alongside some of the ugliest modern architecture.
See also: egg

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
LuisaLWEE-sah (Spanish), LWEE-zah (Italian)Spanish, Italian
Kajetankah-YE-tahnPolish
Polly['pɔli]
Yessenia-Spanish (Latin American)
FernÃO-Portuguese
GretchenGRET-khen (German), GRECH-ən (English)German, English