Stephanie was beautiful, successful, and popular with her peers, but cold or dismissive to everybody else - she was a poisoned apple that left a bitter taste in the mouth.
Chalis: A cup or bowl highly decorated with jewels or precious metals. A desirable object
Poisoned Chalis: A prize that has had its lustre taken from it by an act or situation that makes recieving the prize much less palatable.
Poisoned Chalis: A lesbian that turns down your offer of sex but wants to remain friends.
The offer of a job as The English Football Team manager was a poisoned chalis. He realised that it was footballs prize but he hadnt realised the press corp hated him so much.
Oh man look at her she's beautiful. I get a boner whenever she walks past but she's as lezzer as they come mate! I want to be her friend but I know she will never shag me - thats what I call a poisoned chalis.
Related to the term poisoned chalice (meaning something initially appearing good that later turns out to be a burden), a poisoned turd is something unpleasant that you have been forced to do/accept which later to turns out to be much worse than it initially seemed
James: When Tom got me to do that presentation for him, he neglected to mention that the entire departmental staff would be present and that the data were from the wrong fiscal quarter