cuckoo's egg
Meaning
Noun
- Anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.
Origin
- In reference to the habit of the cuckoo of depositing its egg into another bird's nest to be incubated and fed.
Modern English dictionary
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