单词 | (have) egg on your face |
释义 | (have) egg on your face From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English(have) egg on your face(have) egg on your faceEMBARRASSEDif someone, especially someone in authority, has egg on their face, they have been made to look stupid by something embarrassing The Pentagon’s been left with egg on its face. → eggExamples from the Corpus(have) egg on your face• Meanwhile, Hutcheson observed that in 1995 all the chip forecasters had varying degrees of egg on their face.• People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.• If we think they are easy meat we will end up with egg on our faces. |
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