"twenty-minute egg" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1932, Peter B. Kyne, Lord of Lonely Valley",
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          "ref": "1938, Frank Richardson Kent, The great game of politics, page 246",
          "text": "The delegates to a national convention are, as the politicians say, \"twenty-minute eggs,\" and such a convention is the super-market place for political deals and bargains, trades and treachery.",
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          "text": "'A stinker?'\nNo, he said, it wasn't a stinker.\n'A tough baby?'\n'No.'\n'A twenty-minute egg?'\n'That was it, sir. Mr Runkle is a twenty-minute egg.'",
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        "A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental"
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