English Dictionary

twenty-minute egg

名詞

古風 俗語

(dated, slang) A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの俗語）非常に硬派で、感情や優しさをあまり表に出さない人。 / （比喩的な表現）堅硬な性格で、厳格かつ無情な人。

At the reunion he was teased as a twenty-minute egg for never showing emotion, but he took the joke in stride.

同窓会で彼は感情を見せないことで筋金入りの堅物とからかわれたが、彼はその冗談をさらりと受け流した。

意味（1）

(dated, slang) A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental

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

twenty-minute eggs （ plural ）