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Piece of work

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.

    "What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!"

  2. 2
    a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws. derogatory, idiomatic, often

    "Ugh! She's a piece of work. "A rotten, bad piece, I'd call it," answered Wheedles under his breath."

Etymology

First use appears c. 1473. The idiomatic second sense came about due to Hamlet’s monologue. See cite from sense 1 below.

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