Meaning of twenty-minute egg | Babel Free

Definitions

A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental

dated, slang

Examples

“He was a twenty-minute egg, according to your grandfather, and such men are not soon forgotten.”

“The delegates to a national convention are, as the politicians say, "twenty-minute eggs," and such a convention is the super-market place for political deals and bargains, trades and treachery.”

“'A stinker?' No, he said, it wasn't a stinker. 'A tough baby?' 'No.' 'A twenty-minute egg?' 'That was it, sir. Mr Runkle is a twenty-minute egg.'”

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