rotten egg

Idioms and Phrases

see under bad egg .

Example Sentences

It was added in minute quantities to hide a sulfurous rotten-egg smell in the wine.

From The Daily Beast

It was the picture, still unscarred, but with a great streak of rotten egg across the plain, placid features.

From Project Gutenberg

I hate the sight of a coward worse than I hate the smell of a rotten egg.'

From Project Gutenberg

He could not be self-confident, energetic, witty, and good-humoured with a rotten egg drying through his clothes.

From Project Gutenberg

In the classes of spoiled eggs, of which we have thus far spoken, the proverbial rotten egg has not been considered.

From Project Gutenberg

If he lets go his hold, he is called "Rotten egg," which is regarded as a highly ignominious name.

From Project Gutenberg