bad egg
Example Sentences
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"I don't really want to lock it down like Fort Knox - why are we doing that? This is for our community... just because we've got one bad egg."
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
Julie Dawn Cole knows she was a bad egg — and she’s not shy about telling all.
From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2019
“I’ve been a bad egg lately,” Paul begins.
From The Verge ● Dec. 3, 2018
She discovers Mukri is a very bad egg and that the women have their own dicey secrets.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018
“Well. The Belgians in general. He’s very mad about all the nice things they said earlier about King Léopold. Who was a bad egg, I’ll admit that.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
