lay eggs
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Contents
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English
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Etymology
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1.3
Verb
English
Etymology
Variant of
lay an egg
, using the plural form.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU)
:
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file
)
Verb
lay
eggs
(
idiomatic
)
To produce a
string
of
failures
or
flops
.
1991
, Peter Hay,
Movie Anecdotes
(page 111)
Despite his dictum that “when you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint,” this particular turkey was
laying eggs
all over America.
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