rotten egg

a rotten egg

Someone who is thoroughly, intrinsically inclined to behave badly and cause trouble. His parents did everything they could to steer him on the right path, but I think Chris might just be a rotten egg. She started hanging out with a few rotten eggs in her school, and her grades have really suffered ever since.
See also: egg, rotten
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rotten egg

 and bad egg
a bad or despised person; an evil influence. That guy is a real rotten egg. She sure has turned out to be a rotten egg.
See also: egg, rotten
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

rotten egg

see under bad egg.
See also: egg, rotten
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

rotten egg

n. a bad or despised person; a stinker. She sure has turned out to be a rotten egg.
See also: egg, rotten
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a rotten egg
  • love begets love
  • love breeds love
  • beget
  • hate begets hate
  • hate breeds hate
  • be born that way
  • be made that way
  • be/be born/be made that way
  • set (someone or something) (up) on a pedestal
References in classic literature
Cadwallader, "half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man.
So they formed a guard round him to protect him from the mud and rotten eggs his enemies would now thrown.
(who were in the joke) summoned him to a trial before twelve other wags for perjury and fraud, who in their turn found him guilty with a most facetious joy,--nay, the very populace entered into the whim, and when Mr Brass was moving in a hackney-coach towards the building where these wags assembled, saluted him with rotten eggs and carcases of kittens, and feigned to wish to tear him into shreds, which greatly increased the comicality of the thing, and made him relish it the more, no doubt.
In one of those flights of fancy, not characteristic of her but tiresomely frequent this afternoon, she envisaged herself battered with rotten eggs upon a platform, from which Ralph vainly begged her to descend.
It comes after inspectors found leaks and flaws in the company's management of pollutants that produced a "rotten egg" type odor that's blamed by residents for breathing problems and other health issues.
According to the press release from the Taoyuan prosecutor office, after a detailed analysis of the companies digital records of transactions and shipment dates, the company has been distributing products made from expired, and likely very rotten egg products, since 2011.
Karnan was arrested, the Congress party on Wednesday dubbed the former as a 'rotten egg' and asserted that he should have been more mindful as it was a high office which he adorned.
In fact we've all experienced modern bacteria feeding in this way as that's where that 'rotten egg' whiff of hydrogen sulfide comes from in a blocked drain.
If you have a rotten egg or a roll of toilet paper; I urge you to deliver it with extreme prejudice to their Kampus run by trolls and charlatans," the 47-year-old actor posted on Twitter, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The Fab Four's first drummer is to have a street named after him in Liverpool David Kendall/PA Wire PHILLIPINES Protesters burn an effigy of President Benigno Aquino III which is shaped into a rotten egg ahead of the president's annual state of the nation address at suburban Quezon city Philippines SOUTH WALES A lesser flamingo hatching, only the second one to be born in the UK, at Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in Llanelli, (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust /PA Wire) PALESTINE A boy rides a donkey cart heavily loaded with boxes in Gaza
The notices sent to the organizations outline violations that Exxon measured and reported itself, as well as accusations that the plant violates emissions limits for sulfur dioxide, a component of acid rain; hydrogen sulfide, a toxic, flammable gas characterized by a rotten egg smell; cancer-causing agents such as benzene and butadiene; carbon monoxide; and nitrogen oxide, a cause of smog.
While the harbours are safe for people and dogs, the Environment Agency said that if people do smell the tell-tale rotten egg smell of the gas, they should stay away as a precaution.
In this paper, the authors suggest a new legal explanation and call it a rotten egg plaintiff case.
There seems little doubt that if not handled properly, H2S, which has a rotten egg smell even at low doses and can be harmful to human health at very high (but rare) concentrations, can occur with this type of ADC, or any waste stream where it is contained, including regular C&D debris.
"If there's one rotten egg, it sort of spoils it for all of us," he says referring to Web sites that are breaking the law.