good egg

noun

, Informal.

1. a person who is pleasant, agreeable, or trustworthy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of good egg¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

In due time she returned with the good egg, and I resumed my breakfast with two eggs, but less appetite.

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But, when I looked down, I saw that she had taken away the good egg and left the bad one—all green and yellow—in the slop basin.

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Yet the irrepressible impulse of reform egged her on and it was a perfectly good egg.

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She was a good egg, hurt and beaten down and shoved off by Thorndyke, but she had a lot of the good old bounce.

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Hua Manu, what a good egg you were, though it's the bad that usually keep atop of the water, they tell me!

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