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Hello, I'm Jiaying.
This is the English we speak.
And hello, I'm Neil.
Hey, Jiayin.
We were all thinking about going to that new restaurant for lunch.
Do you want to come?
No, thanks.
I went the other day and once is enough.
Oh, you didn't enjoy it?
Was the food bad?
It wasn't terrible, but it was a bit of a curate's egg.
What's that?
The restaurant only sells eggs.
No, Neil, I said it's a curate's egg.
We use the expression curate's egg to say that something is partly good and partly bad.
We often use it to describe something bad, which also has good elements.
So when you said the restaurant was a curate's egg, you were saying it wasn't a great experience.
What was wrong with it?