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good egg

noun

, Informal.

First recorded in 1915–20

How does good egg compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

In due time she returned with the good egg, and I resumed my breakfast with two eggs, but less appetite.

But, when I looked down, I saw that she had taken away the good egg and left the bad one—all green and yellow—in the slop basin.

Yet the irrepressible impulse of reform egged her on and it was a perfectly good egg.

She was a good egg, hurt and beaten down and shoved off by Thorndyke, but she had a lot of the good old bounce.

Hua Manu, what a good egg you were, though it's the bad that usually keep atop of the water, they tell me!

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