Tonight, on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board show on CNBC, Tunku Varadarajan used the phrase "curate's egg." We could tell in context what he meant, but my husband and I were sufficiently curious to check it out afterward. Here's a translation from British English to ROW English. The essence is "parts of it are excellent", but I leave it to you to discover the rest.
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