0 a priest of the lowest rank, especially in the Church of England, whose job is to help the vicar (= priest of a particular area)
1 to be in charge of selecting and caring for objects to be shown in a museum or to form part of a collection of art, an exhibition, etc.:
If one is being kind to this directive one could describe it as being good in parts, like the curate's egg.
I feel that it is more like the curate's egg or, if you like, the curate's turnip—in which some parts are better than others.
There are good and bad, like the curate's egg.
Like the curate's egg, it is good in some parts and bad in others.
In my opinion, it is very much a curate's egg.
They are almost like gigantic curates' ostrich eggs with parts which are good and parts which are perfectly appalling.
The motion is something of a curate's egg.
I am very much inclined to think it is very much like the curate's egg.
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