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
My mother had driven to check on Julie, who had moved in with a guy I could only assume was a bad egg.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2022
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
Back then, while World War II was going on, whenever one of our hens would lay a bad egg we’d mark it with an “H”—for Hitler.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
