curate's egg

Something that is partly good and partly bad. Taken from a British cartoon about a curate, or priest, who was given a bad egg but focused on the egg's good characteristics as he did not want to offend the person who gave it to him. Primarily heard in UK. Our vacation was a bit of a curate's egg; the first few days were sunny, but the rest of the week was ruined by the heavy rain and flooding.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Starr	[stɑ:]
Winfried	-	German
Zhong	-	Chinese
Khasan	-	Chechen, Ossetian, Circassian, Ingush, Tatar, Bashkir
Horace	['hɔrəs]
Alyx	AL-iks	English (Rare)