egg in one's beer
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Noun
[edit]egg in one's beer (countable and uncountable, plural eggs in one's beer)
- (US) A bonus. [a 1944]
- What do you want? An egg in your beer?
- 1953 February 26, “Eisenhower's First 35 Days”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Those who expected everyone to have an egg in his beer right after inauguration day are visibly disappointed.
- 1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources, “Equal Employment Opportunity for the Handicapped Act of 1979”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Now, while you are here, let us see if we can even put some egg in the beer, and get a little more enlightenment from you.
- 2002, William True, Deryck Tufts True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II[2]:
- Referring to people who are always griping about war-time conditions the bartender mentions the expression “the grass is always greener,” and I refer to Americans who always want “egg in their beer."
- 2014, James R Benn, Souvenir[3]:
- Whaddy want, egg in your beer?