a good egg

Meaning

1. a person who you can rely on to behave well

In the movies · 5

• God's a good egg that way.I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020
• He's a... he's a good egg.Seven Pounds2008
• But your teachers told Mr. Tushman you're known as a good egg.Wonder2017
• It can tell the difference between a good egg...Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971
• He's a good egg. I worked with him on the World War I memorial - in St. Louis. - Uh-huh.The Monuments Men2014

Learn it in full scenes

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971
  • Grandpa Joe Tells the Factory Legend
  • Mr. Turkentine's Science Class
  • Charlie Opens His Birthday Wonka Bar

From the same entry

• have left with egg on over your face
• put all your eggs in one basket
• a chicken - and - egg situation, problem
• the curate's egg
• kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
• sure as eggs is eggs
• teach your grandmother to suck eggs
• egg on