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Also, a good scout . An amiable, basically nice person. For example, You can always count on her to help; she's a good egg , or His friends all think Dad's really a good scout . This colloquial antonym of bad egg dates from the early 1900s, as did the variant.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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