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Bad egg.
A person who cannot be trusted is a bad egg.
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Are we really going to swallow this bad egg, America?
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That I was to be the bad egg.
And the reader is left in no doubt that it's the Prince who uses the word and not Cindy, its target, who is the Bad Egg here.
"One of the pitfalls we find educators falling into is that the immediate assumption tends to be, 'This is an isolated incident, this is a bad egg, this is a one-off thing.
The good ones triumph and the bad eggs are defeated and the story ends happily until a fresh crisis breaks.
You're going to be sharing a loo, a kettle and a social group with this person; they had better not be a bad egg.
Kerr said a two-way information exchange began, and disclosed that codes were used to indicate those who were of interest to Special Branch and that "Irish ex-army, bad egg" was an example of this.
In this, they are surely right that there will be at least one bad egg out there.
A bad egg.
BP might just have been a bad egg.
"One bad egg could cause you a lot of problems".
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