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noun ɛɡɛɡ 1An oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate, usually containing a developing embryo. The eggs of birds are enclosed in a chalky shell, while those of reptiles are in a leathery membrane. Example sentencesExamples - Sperm from the same male could be used to fertilize eggs from several females and vice versa.
- To this day, many reptiles bury their eggs, whereas nearly all birds leave them exposed.
- They lay an egg in the nest of another bird, such as a reed warbler, and when the new cuckoo hatches it kicks out the reed warbler chicks.
- The European cuckoo has several races or ‘gentes,’ each of which lays an egg of a different color or pattern to match its most common host or hosts.
- When most birds incubate eggs, the females often produce high levels of prolactin, a hormone involved in parental behavior.
- Larval fish break open their egg with their tail and swim free.
- In spring, fertilized aphid eggs hatch under the bark of a cottonwood tree.
- Females cause significant tree damage when they rake back the bark of twigs to lay their fertilized eggs.
- Brood parasites in general lay eggs with shells thicker than those of their hosts.
- Field Sparrows are not known to eject cowbird eggs.
- Females lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave the rearing to other species.
- Female penguins don't eat for at least a week before laying an egg or two.
- The bulk of flu vaccine production today is done using fertilized chicken eggs and takes months.
- Some amphibians and fish lay eggs in clusters, with the outer ones protecting the inner ones.
- Successfully incubated eggs hatch about two months later.
- Fertilized eggs often hatch at the beginning of the growth season but may continue to hatch intermittently thereafter.
- The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside.
- In general, birds require at least one day to lay an egg, and many species delay incubation until their entire clutch is laid.
- Embryos in the eggs do not begin to develop until their mother warms them through incubation.
- She will lay an egg approximately every day or two until she has a clutch of about three to five eggs, which may or may not all hatch.
- If I buy a chicken now, how would I know when it is going to lay an egg?
- They also eat other small aquatic creatures, including fish eggs and very small fish, and will feed at salmon spawning areas.
- Clutch size is the number of eggs in a clutch of an average-sized female.
- Females ready to lay fertilized eggs always seem eager to lay them on other bugs, regardless of their sex.
Synonyms ovum, gamete, germ cell, zygote - 1.1 An infertile bird's egg, especially one from a chicken, used for food.
as modifier an egg sandwich Example sentencesExamples - Food was short, and products like meat, eggs, butter, honey, fruit, and vegetables could fetch a good price.
- She forgets she had a hard-boiled egg for breakfast.
- I was eating scrambled eggs for breakfast, accustomed to the lukewarm food by now.
- Instead, for long-term mental performance, you need protein-rich foods like eggs and peanut butter.
- So David cooked up a wonderfully greasy breakfast, eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread, our first fry-up for months!
- Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, and yoghurt.
- I had bacon, sausage, beans, tomatoes, a fried egg, bread and butter and a huge mug of steaming hot coffee; this comes top of my all time favourite meals.
- My diet has always included generous amounts of meat, butter, eggs, fried foods, chips, and cheese.
- The breakfast buffet has everything from bacon and eggs to fruit, juices, pastries and cereals.
- Health experts say eating eggs and chicken meat is safe, as long as they're well-cooked.
- Ryan then cooks us a great brunch of bacon, eggs and sausages, mushrooms & tomatoes.
- Back home I did us a nice late breakfast of poached eggs on toast.
- Protein-rich foods include meats, eggs and dairy products, as well as legumes and nuts.
- Place sweetbreads on plate and top with poached quail egg.
- Cholesterol is found in foods such as eggs, shellfish, meat and dairy products.
- He looked fresh as a daisy and was eating scrambled egg on toast off a sky blue plate.
- I had a fried goose egg for lunch.
- Patrick scooped two fried eggs onto each plate.
- People exist on sausage, bread, eggs, maybe some chicken, things like that.
- More than three million Brits have tried or are on the controversial diet, which substitutes bread, pasta and potatoes for foods like meat, eggs and cheese.
- 1.2 A thing resembling a bird's egg in shape.
Example sentencesExamples - She also has some chocolate eggs ready for her family members, schoolmates and a neighbourhood friend she thinks will show up.
- This year, why not have them search for both real hard-boiled colored eggs as well as chocolate eggs?
- Well, the time has come for me to devour some chocolate eggs.
- Winners were given chocolate eggs and a basket of Easter treats.
- We'll exchange chocolate eggs and in that exchange will go our hopes for new life and peace in a troubled world.
- I ate some chocolate eggs, and was going to offer some to Dad when Mom told me not to; apparently he's not allowed anything like that.
- While many of us are munching on our chocolate eggs this Easter, brave climber Richard Taylor will be taking on the largest peak on earth in a bid to re-write history.
- I'm sure they had a cracking Easter with all those chocolate eggs.
- On Monday the 313 pupils were told by their headteacher that the mini chocolate eggs brought in by all the pupils for Comic Relief on Friday had been stolen.
- There are sinful treats such as chocolate eggs, hot cross buns, Easter saffron cake, and ginger cookies.
- A man who bought 7,000 chocolate eggs won a barrage of prizes on the Internet including a holiday to Hong Kong, it was revealed yesterday.
- Today Lent is over and chocolate eggs are about to be opened.
- In our house the chocolate eggs are given (along with warnings that they shouldn't be eaten all at once) at breakfast or brunch.
- Put the Easter eggs in the fridge, I'm coming home.
- At Easter, my five-year-old received £16 as well as a cupboard-full of chocolate eggs.
- Hope you all have a nice holiday and don't eat too many chocolate eggs.
- Easter came early for hundreds of children in hospital when football stars arrived with scores of chocolate eggs.
- The school held an Easter egg raffle in which more than 50 chocolate eggs were won by pupils, with money raised going towards school funds.
- The tradition of giving a chocolate egg to mark the end of Lent dates back to the 19th century and shows little sign of waning.
- Hundreds of chocolate Easter eggs were delivered to sick children at a Bristol hospital by kind-hearted bikers.
2Biology
The female reproductive cell in animals and plants; an ovum. Example sentencesExamples - Premature ovarian failure occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs and reproductive hormones well in advance of natural menopause.
- Scientists are harvesting stem cells from fertilized human eggs and doing experiments to develop medical cures.
- The cells of the fertilised eggs multiply, growing into embryos in an incubator adjusted to the temperature and carbon dioxide levels of the woman's body.
- Scientists said yesterday that they had grown an unlimited supply of eggs from embryonic stem cells taken from both male and female embryos.
- Early experiments on mice have already indicated the possibility of turning stem cells into eggs or sperm which could then be used to help infertile couples.
Synonyms ovum, gamete, germ cell, zygote 3Architecture
A decorative oval moulding, used alternately with triangular shapes. as modifier egg and dart moulding Example sentencesExamples - The eggs are sometimes divided by an anchor or dart, as in the accompanying example.
- The communion table is composed of a beautiful piece of Italian marble, 10 feet long, supported by two bronzed scrolls, and enriched with the honeysuckle and egg mouldings.
4dated, informal with adjective A person of a specified kind. the biography portrays him as a thoroughly bad egg Example sentencesExamples - The police command needs to scrutinise its ranks to see if there are some bad eggs that are not prepared to follow procedures of dealing with suspects.
- The festive period will only be enjoyable when we all work with the police to rid our communities of the bad eggs.
- The last guy that sent her flowers was a motorcycle gang member, a real bad egg.
- When police arrested those identified to be culpable in the riots, it was only normal that bad eggs should be separated from good ones.
- It is encouraging to see that Inspector-General of Police is determined to clean up the force whose image was being dented by a few bad eggs.
- It's a shame that one bad egg can ruin it for everyone.
- However, we continue to warn that there are more than just a few bad eggs in the Police Service.
- He was surprised that Alison didn't turn out to be bad egg, considering her living conditions.
- I have no problem getting rid of bad eggs because I don't work with bad eggs.
- A few bad eggs are behind the trouble, the rest just happen to have nowhere better to be.
- The admission by the council that it is infested with some bad eggs which are to be rooted out is a good starting point in dealing with the matter.
- Of course it is true that there are bad eggs among members of the public too, that want to evade tax.
- But most thought only of combatting corruption and getting rid of the bad eggs.
- The only hope is that somewhere, somehow there will be those in the ranks who are prepared to resist the temptation and are prepared to move against the bad eggs among them.
- Punitive people are said to be bad eggs in all sorts of ways.
- Her husband was the bad egg in the family.
- Like anything else, there are bad eggs in the bunch.
- So even though he shows Ray as a heroin addict, philanderer and at times, generally bad egg, he can't quite bring himself to condemn the man for his actions.
- They are a very friendly people for the most part but like any society have their bad eggs too.
- Dealing with a really bad egg, Wilson said, gobbles up time.
Phrases don't put all your eggs in one basket proverb Don't risk everything on the success of one venture. we need to be more tactical and not put all our eggs in one political basket Example sentencesExamples - Asset allocation works on a very simple principle: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Anyway, there's a lesson that comes out of it - don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Diversify your holdings, so that you don't put all your eggs in one basket - regardless of how carefully you watch that basket.
- Second, granny was right: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Happily, overconfidence has a straightforward solution - don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Although they violated a fundamental rule of investing - perhaps the fundamental rule of investing, that you don't put all your eggs in one basket - they feel a sense of betrayal, of having been defrauded.
- That is, don't put all your eggs in one basket - send two small spacecraft instead of one big one.
informal as imperativeUsed as an expression of anger or scorn. Example sentencesExamples - If I were you, I'd tell him to go suck an egg and stay out of my way.
- And anyone who looks down on my dancing because I'm big can just go suck an egg.
- I am me, and if you don't like it, you can go suck an egg!
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs Destroy a reliable and valuable source of income. high taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs Example sentencesExamples - But what the market makers truly don't seem to understand is that neither people nor markets can be controlled for long, and with every well-intentioned stabilization exercise, they risk killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Therefore, as McCormick warns, we should take great care that regulations in the name of global warming ‘not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.’
- What I would say to the greedy inhabitants of Haworth and any other place which relies on tourists for their bread and butter, is to take care that you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Why would the United States want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, our sense of security in our property rights?
- The important thing today is not the redistribution of the national wealth, but its creation; here Socialism is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- No point in killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, is there?
- By outsourcing American jobs, American companies are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, the American consumer.
- Boy oh boy, you guys sure know how to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!
- So long as they see capital as the source of jobs, the source of wealth, the source of all progress, then their answer will be that they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Non-cricketing sports in India would go to any lengths for such coverage, and here he is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!
informal Be completely unsuccessful. Example sentencesExamples - After laying an egg like this, who is he to cast aspersions at the likes of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese?
- I don't blame him for losing in the first round and don't think he laid an egg.
- The team continued the annual tradition of laying an egg by acquiring a player that they didn't need for more money than he was worth.
- Upon graduating from Avondale High School for the Performing arts, I went to Clark Atlanta Unviersity and totally laid an egg.
- The magazine really laid an egg with this article, which ranks right up there with the worst and most inaccurate articles they have ever published.
informal Appearing foolish or ridiculous. don't underestimate this team, or you'll be left with egg on your face Example sentencesExamples - So the Aussies are home and the Irish left with egg on their face.
- He added: ‘It was Julian's choice to do it the way he has done it and I just hope he doesn't end up with egg on his face.’
- If you don't secure your computers you could end up with egg on your face.
- There's always a chance of danger from a free-kick or something, and you don't want to end up with egg on your face.
- Somewhere probably in the deepest recess of our minds is a memory we would rather forget, of a present we purchased that left us with egg on our face.
- If the bad results continue to snowball, Dick will be left with egg on his face.
- He said: ‘I would have been left with egg on my face if I had been wrong.’
- Just look at the Puerto Rican basketball team, a no-name crew with a 40-year-old centre that left a collection of millionaire celebrities with egg on their face.
- Suddenly the profits of doom were left with egg on their face as the Blues relished life at the summit.
- If you don't want to end up with egg on your face, you had best approach the whole of today with a pinch of salt.
Derivatives adjective Adding eggs leads to a level of richness that eggless ice creams most certainly lack. Example sentencesExamples - It uses fresh penci pasta, a thickly cut eggless pasta, sauced with sausage, lemon and nutmeg.
- The menu is huge and international (try lasagne verdure, made with eggless spinach pasta, artichoke enchiladas in ranchero sauce or Thai red pepper curry), the wine list is big and deep and the place is stylish, fun and loud.
- The first was a flourless, eggless dark chocolate torte, which had the consistency of the inside of a truffle and was served slightly chilled.
- If someone wants to order a special eggless cake, be it Black Forest or with strawberry or custard filling, we can make it for them.
Origin Middle English (superseding earlier ey, from Old English ǣg): from Old Norse. In the Middle Ages the Old Norse word egg started to take over from the earlier ey or eye (plural eyren). The two terms were used side by side for some time, and in 1490 the printer William Caxton wrote about how difficult it was to decide which word to use. See also cockney. If you have egg on your face you look foolish or ridiculous. The first recorded example is from 1950s America. It probably comes from the idea of a messy eater having traces of food around their mouth, but it could also refer to a bad actor being pelted with eggs. Calling someone a good egg or a bad egg—something famous for its unpleasant smell—is now associated with the 1920s and writers such as P. G. Wodehouse, but the expressions are older than that. A disliked or unpleasant person was first called a bad egg in the 1850s; the first person to reverse the words and come up with good egg seems to have been Rudyard Kipling, in 1903. See also curate. The advertising slogan Go to work on an egg, used in Britain by the Egg Marketing Board during the 1960s, is often credited to the novelist Fay Weldon, who used to work as an advertising copywriter. She now says that it was written by another member of her team. The proverb don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs has been in use since the early 18th century to caution someone against giving unwanted advice, in particular trying to tell a more experienced or knowledgeable person how to do something that they already know. Why your grandmother should be sucking eggs in the first place is not certain, but presumably the suggestion is that she has no teeth. An intellectual or highbrow person is sometimes called an egghead because of the association of an egg-like bald head with age and wisdom. This particular use dates from the early years of the 20th century. Eggplant (mid 18th century), an alternative for aubergine, was first used to describe a variety with white egg-shaped fruit. Egg as in to egg someone on is a different word. It comes from Old Norse eggja ‘to incite’.
Rhymes beg, cleg, Eigg, Greg, keg, leg, Meg, peg, skeg, teg, yegg verb ɛɡɛɡ [with object]egg someone onEncourage someone to do something foolish or risky. he liked to boast and she would egg him on shamelessly Example sentencesExamples - Standing next to me was a fellow patient, a burly Scotsman, egging me on: ‘Go on, son, you can do it.’
- Another was in the vicinity, egging him on with shouts.
- He rings up bosses where there is a dispute and either eggs them on, or urges them to continue the dispute.
- Only last Saturday they were egging me on to buy four-inch heel patent-leather sandals in the window at Dolcis.
- When the Prime Minister is saying that we should all look at this in a calm, sensible and measured way his deputy stands up and starts egging us on, trying to get people to respond and wind people up.
- The man looked sick, but people around him were egging him on, encouraging him.
- She is calling out to the other two, who are some distance behind her, egging them on with visions of cold beer and hot barbecued oysters at the end of the hike…
- You can't help but warm to her, sharing her enjoyment and egging her on.
- I also plead guilty to egging Val on to write about his air force experiences.
- Blind-folded and with the crowd egging him on, the wand in his hand moved in the air swiftly and continuously in search of that elusive pot.
- In particular, Harry lacks the humour and the menace he should display in egging George on.
- Her sister Vanessa egged her on to drive a hard bargain and advised her to withhold the story unless ‘money is paid beforehand’.
- How could I both surrender to the demon sitting on my shoulder, egging me on, yet not give myself away?
- The other patrons were terrifically entertained, egging him on; not a dissenting view was heard.
- The big scandal is that some of the people in the chat room were egging him on to take more.
- My pal's front room was packed, the audience egging me on so to speak, as I downed the first few in quick succession.
- Most regular readers of this blog can do their own ‘tut-tutting’ without me egging them on.
- Jones could be heard egging Flintoff on from his spot on the boundary.
- My sister, who's more of a soul girl, is disgusted that this drunken, unshaved punk letch in a battered leather jacket is trying it on and that her skinhead brother's egging him on.
- The man keeps going, the reporter egging him on.
Synonyms urge, goad, incite, provoke, prick, sting, propel, push, drive, prod, prompt, induce, impel, spur on, cheer on encourage, exhort, stimulate, motivate, galvanize, act as a stimulus to, act as an incentive to, inspire, stir North American informal root on, light a fire under rare incentivize
Origin Middle English: from Old Norse eggja 'incite'. nounɛɡeɡ 1An oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate, usually containing a developing embryo. The eggs of birds are enclosed in a chalky shell, while those of reptiles are in a leathery membrane. Example sentencesExamples - The bulk of flu vaccine production today is done using fertilized chicken eggs and takes months.
- Fertilized eggs often hatch at the beginning of the growth season but may continue to hatch intermittently thereafter.
- Females lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave the rearing to other species.
- Brood parasites in general lay eggs with shells thicker than those of their hosts.
- She will lay an egg approximately every day or two until she has a clutch of about three to five eggs, which may or may not all hatch.
- The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside.
- Sperm from the same male could be used to fertilize eggs from several females and vice versa.
- They lay an egg in the nest of another bird, such as a reed warbler, and when the new cuckoo hatches it kicks out the reed warbler chicks.
- If I buy a chicken now, how would I know when it is going to lay an egg?
- Some amphibians and fish lay eggs in clusters, with the outer ones protecting the inner ones.
- When most birds incubate eggs, the females often produce high levels of prolactin, a hormone involved in parental behavior.
- Field Sparrows are not known to eject cowbird eggs.
- Embryos in the eggs do not begin to develop until their mother warms them through incubation.
- Larval fish break open their egg with their tail and swim free.
- In general, birds require at least one day to lay an egg, and many species delay incubation until their entire clutch is laid.
- To this day, many reptiles bury their eggs, whereas nearly all birds leave them exposed.
- Female penguins don't eat for at least a week before laying an egg or two.
- In spring, fertilized aphid eggs hatch under the bark of a cottonwood tree.
- They also eat other small aquatic creatures, including fish eggs and very small fish, and will feed at salmon spawning areas.
- Successfully incubated eggs hatch about two months later.
- Females cause significant tree damage when they rake back the bark of twigs to lay their fertilized eggs.
- Clutch size is the number of eggs in a clutch of an average-sized female.
- Females ready to lay fertilized eggs always seem eager to lay them on other bugs, regardless of their sex.
- The European cuckoo has several races or ‘gentes,’ each of which lays an egg of a different color or pattern to match its most common host or hosts.
Synonyms ovum, gamete, germ cell, zygote - 1.1 An infertile egg, typically of the domestic hen, used for food.
Example sentencesExamples - So David cooked up a wonderfully greasy breakfast, eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread, our first fry-up for months!
- I was eating scrambled eggs for breakfast, accustomed to the lukewarm food by now.
- My diet has always included generous amounts of meat, butter, eggs, fried foods, chips, and cheese.
- Ryan then cooks us a great brunch of bacon, eggs and sausages, mushrooms & tomatoes.
- The breakfast buffet has everything from bacon and eggs to fruit, juices, pastries and cereals.
- More than three million Brits have tried or are on the controversial diet, which substitutes bread, pasta and potatoes for foods like meat, eggs and cheese.
- She forgets she had a hard-boiled egg for breakfast.
- Back home I did us a nice late breakfast of poached eggs on toast.
- I had a fried goose egg for lunch.
- Food was short, and products like meat, eggs, butter, honey, fruit, and vegetables could fetch a good price.
- Patrick scooped two fried eggs onto each plate.
- Place sweetbreads on plate and top with poached quail egg.
- Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, and yoghurt.
- He looked fresh as a daisy and was eating scrambled egg on toast off a sky blue plate.
- Instead, for long-term mental performance, you need protein-rich foods like eggs and peanut butter.
- Protein-rich foods include meats, eggs and dairy products, as well as legumes and nuts.
- I had bacon, sausage, beans, tomatoes, a fried egg, bread and butter and a huge mug of steaming hot coffee; this comes top of my all time favourite meals.
- Cholesterol is found in foods such as eggs, shellfish, meat and dairy products.
- Health experts say eating eggs and chicken meat is safe, as long as they're well-cooked.
- People exist on sausage, bread, eggs, maybe some chicken, things like that.
- 1.2 A thing resembling a bird's egg in shape.
Example sentencesExamples - Well, the time has come for me to devour some chocolate eggs.
- Put the Easter eggs in the fridge, I'm coming home.
- We'll exchange chocolate eggs and in that exchange will go our hopes for new life and peace in a troubled world.
- She also has some chocolate eggs ready for her family members, schoolmates and a neighbourhood friend she thinks will show up.
- Hundreds of chocolate Easter eggs were delivered to sick children at a Bristol hospital by kind-hearted bikers.
- This year, why not have them search for both real hard-boiled colored eggs as well as chocolate eggs?
- A man who bought 7,000 chocolate eggs won a barrage of prizes on the Internet including a holiday to Hong Kong, it was revealed yesterday.
- The school held an Easter egg raffle in which more than 50 chocolate eggs were won by pupils, with money raised going towards school funds.
- While many of us are munching on our chocolate eggs this Easter, brave climber Richard Taylor will be taking on the largest peak on earth in a bid to re-write history.
- There are sinful treats such as chocolate eggs, hot cross buns, Easter saffron cake, and ginger cookies.
- Today Lent is over and chocolate eggs are about to be opened.
- On Monday the 313 pupils were told by their headteacher that the mini chocolate eggs brought in by all the pupils for Comic Relief on Friday had been stolen.
- Hope you all have a nice holiday and don't eat too many chocolate eggs.
- I ate some chocolate eggs, and was going to offer some to Dad when Mom told me not to; apparently he's not allowed anything like that.
- The tradition of giving a chocolate egg to mark the end of Lent dates back to the 19th century and shows little sign of waning.
- I'm sure they had a cracking Easter with all those chocolate eggs.
- Easter came early for hundreds of children in hospital when football stars arrived with scores of chocolate eggs.
- In our house the chocolate eggs are given (along with warnings that they shouldn't be eaten all at once) at breakfast or brunch.
- At Easter, my five-year-old received £16 as well as a cupboard-full of chocolate eggs.
- Winners were given chocolate eggs and a basket of Easter treats.
- 1.3Architecture A decorative oval molding, used alternately with triangular figures.
Example sentencesExamples - The eggs are sometimes divided by an anchor or dart, as in the accompanying example.
- The communion table is composed of a beautiful piece of Italian marble, 10 feet long, supported by two bronzed scrolls, and enriched with the honeysuckle and egg mouldings.
2Biology
The female reproductive cell in animals and plants; an ovum. Example sentencesExamples - Scientists are harvesting stem cells from fertilized human eggs and doing experiments to develop medical cures.
- The cells of the fertilised eggs multiply, growing into embryos in an incubator adjusted to the temperature and carbon dioxide levels of the woman's body.
- Premature ovarian failure occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs and reproductive hormones well in advance of natural menopause.
- Early experiments on mice have already indicated the possibility of turning stem cells into eggs or sperm which could then be used to help infertile couples.
- Scientists said yesterday that they had grown an unlimited supply of eggs from embryonic stem cells taken from both male and female embryos.
Synonyms ovum, gamete, germ cell, zygote 3dated, informal with adjective A person possessing a specified quality. Example sentencesExamples - Of course it is true that there are bad eggs among members of the public too, that want to evade tax.
- They are a very friendly people for the most part but like any society have their bad eggs too.
- He was surprised that Alison didn't turn out to be bad egg, considering her living conditions.
- The only hope is that somewhere, somehow there will be those in the ranks who are prepared to resist the temptation and are prepared to move against the bad eggs among them.
- The last guy that sent her flowers was a motorcycle gang member, a real bad egg.
- Like anything else, there are bad eggs in the bunch.
- So even though he shows Ray as a heroin addict, philanderer and at times, generally bad egg, he can't quite bring himself to condemn the man for his actions.
- However, we continue to warn that there are more than just a few bad eggs in the Police Service.
- Punitive people are said to be bad eggs in all sorts of ways.
- The festive period will only be enjoyable when we all work with the police to rid our communities of the bad eggs.
- Her husband was the bad egg in the family.
- When police arrested those identified to be culpable in the riots, it was only normal that bad eggs should be separated from good ones.
- But most thought only of combatting corruption and getting rid of the bad eggs.
- A few bad eggs are behind the trouble, the rest just happen to have nowhere better to be.
- The police command needs to scrutinise its ranks to see if there are some bad eggs that are not prepared to follow procedures of dealing with suspects.
- It is encouraging to see that Inspector-General of Police is determined to clean up the force whose image was being dented by a few bad eggs.
- The admission by the council that it is infested with some bad eggs which are to be rooted out is a good starting point in dealing with the matter.
- Dealing with a really bad egg, Wilson said, gobbles up time.
- I have no problem getting rid of bad eggs because I don't work with bad eggs.
- It's a shame that one bad egg can ruin it for everyone.
Phrases don't put all your eggs in one basket proverb Don't risk everything on the success of one venture. Example sentencesExamples - Asset allocation works on a very simple principle: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Anyway, there's a lesson that comes out of it - don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Although they violated a fundamental rule of investing - perhaps the fundamental rule of investing, that you don't put all your eggs in one basket - they feel a sense of betrayal, of having been defrauded.
- Second, granny was right: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Happily, overconfidence has a straightforward solution - don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- That is, don't put all your eggs in one basket - send two small spacecraft instead of one big one.
- Diversify your holdings, so that you don't put all your eggs in one basket - regardless of how carefully you watch that basket.
informal as imperativeUsed as an expression of anger or scorn. Example sentencesExamples - And anyone who looks down on my dancing because I'm big can just go suck an egg.
- If I were you, I'd tell him to go suck an egg and stay out of my way.
- I am me, and if you don't like it, you can go suck an egg!
informal Be completely unsuccessful; fail badly. Example sentencesExamples - The magazine really laid an egg with this article, which ranks right up there with the worst and most inaccurate articles they have ever published.
- Upon graduating from Avondale High School for the Performing arts, I went to Clark Atlanta Unviersity and totally laid an egg.
- I don't blame him for losing in the first round and don't think he laid an egg.
- After laying an egg like this, who is he to cast aspersions at the likes of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese?
- The team continued the annual tradition of laying an egg by acquiring a player that they didn't need for more money than he was worth.
informal Appearing foolish or ridiculous. don't underestimate this team, or you'll be left with egg on your face Example sentencesExamples - There's always a chance of danger from a free-kick or something, and you don't want to end up with egg on your face.
- Somewhere probably in the deepest recess of our minds is a memory we would rather forget, of a present we purchased that left us with egg on our face.
- Suddenly the profits of doom were left with egg on their face as the Blues relished life at the summit.
- If you don't secure your computers you could end up with egg on your face.
- If you don't want to end up with egg on your face, you had best approach the whole of today with a pinch of salt.
- He added: ‘It was Julian's choice to do it the way he has done it and I just hope he doesn't end up with egg on his face.’
- So the Aussies are home and the Irish left with egg on their face.
- He said: ‘I would have been left with egg on my face if I had been wrong.’
- If the bad results continue to snowball, Dick will be left with egg on his face.
- Just look at the Puerto Rican basketball team, a no-name crew with a 40-year-old centre that left a collection of millionaire celebrities with egg on their face.
kill the goose that lays the golden egg Destroy a reliable and valuable source of income. Example sentencesExamples - What I would say to the greedy inhabitants of Haworth and any other place which relies on tourists for their bread and butter, is to take care that you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Boy oh boy, you guys sure know how to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!
- But what the market makers truly don't seem to understand is that neither people nor markets can be controlled for long, and with every well-intentioned stabilization exercise, they risk killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Why would the United States want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, our sense of security in our property rights?
- The important thing today is not the redistribution of the national wealth, but its creation; here Socialism is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- So long as they see capital as the source of jobs, the source of wealth, the source of all progress, then their answer will be that they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Non-cricketing sports in India would go to any lengths for such coverage, and here he is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!
- By outsourcing American jobs, American companies are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, the American consumer.
- No point in killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, is there?
- Therefore, as McCormick warns, we should take great care that regulations in the name of global warming ‘not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.’
Origin Middle English (superseding earlier ey, from Old English ǣg): from Old Norse. verbɛɡeɡ [with object]egg someone onUrge or encourage someone to do something, especially something foolish or risky. he liked to boast and she would egg him on shamelessly Example sentencesExamples - Most regular readers of this blog can do their own ‘tut-tutting’ without me egging them on.
- How could I both surrender to the demon sitting on my shoulder, egging me on, yet not give myself away?
- She is calling out to the other two, who are some distance behind her, egging them on with visions of cold beer and hot barbecued oysters at the end of the hike…
- I also plead guilty to egging Val on to write about his air force experiences.
- My sister, who's more of a soul girl, is disgusted that this drunken, unshaved punk letch in a battered leather jacket is trying it on and that her skinhead brother's egging him on.
- Jones could be heard egging Flintoff on from his spot on the boundary.
- My pal's front room was packed, the audience egging me on so to speak, as I downed the first few in quick succession.
- When the Prime Minister is saying that we should all look at this in a calm, sensible and measured way his deputy stands up and starts egging us on, trying to get people to respond and wind people up.
- The big scandal is that some of the people in the chat room were egging him on to take more.
- You can't help but warm to her, sharing her enjoyment and egging her on.
- In particular, Harry lacks the humour and the menace he should display in egging George on.
- Her sister Vanessa egged her on to drive a hard bargain and advised her to withhold the story unless ‘money is paid beforehand’.
- The man keeps going, the reporter egging him on.
- The other patrons were terrifically entertained, egging him on; not a dissenting view was heard.
- The man looked sick, but people around him were egging him on, encouraging him.
- Only last Saturday they were egging me on to buy four-inch heel patent-leather sandals in the window at Dolcis.
- Standing next to me was a fellow patient, a burly Scotsman, egging me on: ‘Go on, son, you can do it.’
- Another was in the vicinity, egging him on with shouts.
- Blind-folded and with the crowd egging him on, the wand in his hand moved in the air swiftly and continuously in search of that elusive pot.
- He rings up bosses where there is a dispute and either eggs them on, or urges them to continue the dispute.
Synonyms urge, goad, incite, provoke, prick, sting, propel, push, drive, prod, prompt, induce, impel, spur on, cheer on
Origin Middle English: from Old Norse eggja ‘incite’. |