Examples
- "The past spring and summer season has seen much fluctuation. Like the curate's egg, it has been excellent in parts." (Minister's Gazette of Fashion, 1905)
- "All the same it is a curate's egg of a book. While the whole may be somewhat stale and addled, it would be unfair not to acknowledge the merits of some of its parts." (Oxford Magazine, 1962).
- "Like the curate's egg, the details of Wegener's hypothesis were good in parts." (John Gribbin, The Scientists, 2001).
- "Fishman... attempted a 'systmatization' of SWH, suggesting that its extreme versions were untenable..., but that, like the curate's egg, it was excellent in parts." (Philip K. Bock, "World view and language", in Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. William Bright, vol. 4, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 250).
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