piece of work

Significado (Inglés)

  1. A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic, often) A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws.

Etimología (Inglés)

First use appears c. 1473. The idiomatic second sense came about due to Hamlet’s monologue. See cite from sense 1 below.

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