I describe an Easter egg cooked until its inside is solid, but I am also used to describe a tough, gritty detective in old mystery movies. What phrase am I?
Hard-boiled
'Hard-boiled' applies to fully cooked eggs and is also a classic idiom for gritty, tough detectives.
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