curate's egg

/ˈkjʊəɹətz ˌɛɡ/

noun

(idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt by the bad.

The movie was a curate's egg - some scenes were brilliant, but others were poorly executed.

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(idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt by the bad.

We cannot say we are uniformly favourably impressed with such portions of the work as we have read. The work strikes us as being rather unequal. Like the curate's egg, parts of it are excellent, but parts provide bad material for assimilation.

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