What is "piece of work"

n. 1 A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft. 2 (context idiomatic often derogatory English) A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws (e.g. ''a nasty piece of work'').

n. a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time" [syn: work]