curate's egg

The performance, however, was really something of a curate's egg, and especially during the first half.

But this book is a bit of a curate's egg.

All the same it is a curate's egg of a book.

This morning they lie 14th, after a curate's egg of a campaign.

Well it is a bit like the legendary curate's egg.

Like the curate's egg, it has been excellent in parts.

All things considered, England will be better for this taste of the curate's egg.

We drove that model first and it's a bit of a curate's egg.

My report this year will have some similarities to the curate's egg.

Some of the countries we know to be dangerous are, like the curate's egg, only bad in parts - generally the big cities.

Up until now, though, dance in 3D has seemed more of a curate's egg than a swan's.

It seems to be something of a curate's egg.

Madam President, this provision is a little like the curate's egg.

To use the analogy of the curate's egg, it was "good in parts."

For me it is something of the curate's egg, part bad but with great redeeming features.

This production was like curate's egg - very good in places and bad in others.

The walk itself was "a bit like a curate's egg, good, bad and indifferent", he said.

Although the image might seem odd for a book so concerned with Jewish identity, it is something of a curate's egg.

It was their fifth loss of a curate's egg of a season.

Like the Curate's egg, parts of it were excellent!

It was in many ways a curate's egg, but is crucial to an understanding of contemporary Australia.

In fairness, he was not the only curate's egg in human form.

Of course- like the curate's egg - parts of it are excellent.

Like the Curate's Egg, the answer is 'good in parts'.

I accept that this is a curate's egg of an argument, but it is still true.