Idiom
rotten egg
Meaning
A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Hurry up or you will be the rotten egg.”
“We all finished our race before him, so he was the rotten egg of the group.”
“The last student to arrive at the lecture hall was teased by his classmates for being the rotten egg.”
Examples
simple
“Hurry up or you will be the rotten egg.”
contextual
“We all finished our race before him, so he was the rotten egg of the group.”
complex
“The last student to arrive at the lecture hall was teased by his classmates for being the rotten egg.”
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