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Good egg

//ˈɡʊd ɛɡ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend. British, US, idiomatic

    "The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth, […]"

  2. 2
    (old-fashioned slang) a good person wordnet

Etymology

Probably a humorous antonym of bad egg (“someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue”).

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