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Where does the phrase Like the curate's egg good in parts come from?
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The Curate's Egg. Something that is largely bad, but may have some small good part.
[After a cartoon by du Maurier in the English weekly Punch (Nov. 9, 1895): a timid, or maybe polite, curate, when served a bad egg at the bishop's table, replies that "parts of it are excellent"]
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