good egg
(Britain, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
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Okay, your boss is a good egg. We need more of that in the world!!! 🙂↕️
Mickey D's does do a good egg McMuffin 😁 Is this how you travel? Can you believe it's been 2 years?!? Such a wonderful day, that was ❣️
Glad she called this dangerous ideology out - she is such a good egg.
Eh we're just going at it. Had 2 eggs and toast. Was nice. Can't go wrong with a good egg! Especially us ferals!
Got a very good egg salad sandwich from the liquor store for lunch 👍
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(Britain, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
“Okay, your boss is a good egg. We need more of that in the world!!! 🙂↕️”
The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his…
“Okay, your boss is a good egg. We need more of that in the world!!! 🙂↕️”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Mickey D's does do a good egg McMuffin 😁 Is this how you travel? Can you believe it's been 2 years?!? Such a wonderful day, that was ❣️”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Glad she called this dangerous ideology out - she is such a good egg.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Eh we're just going at it. Had 2 eggs and toast. Was nice. Can't go wrong with a good egg! Especially us ferals!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Got a very good egg salad sandwich from the liquor store for lunch 👍”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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