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Bad egg

noun

(old-fashioned slang) a bad person.

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"Bad egg" Quotes from Famous Books

... rubber gloves, pulled a lab apron around her. She began reaching for test tubes, measuring devices. She murmured softly, "What keeps you from telling yourself you're nothing but a crook, Don? When we first met you—it seems a terribly long time ago, back there in Far Cry—you didn't seem to be such a bad egg." ...

— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)

... after him, and thought, while he paced the poop, and I held the wheel. "You're in for it, Shreve!" I thought. "This packet is so hot she sizzles, and this Old Man is a bad egg, and no fatal error! There will be bloody, sudden death before this passage is ended, or I'm a ...

— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer

... bad egg, Gerald. According to the standards of a town like this, I'm rotten, and they're about right. For five ...

— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... thing," said Charlie, who had turned a shade paler during this matter-of-fact, cold-blooded analysis, "is to keep Alix Crown from falling into his clutches. He's a bad egg, that feller is, and he's made up his mind to win her by fair means ...

— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon