Lay eggs

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To produce a string of failures or flops. idiomatic

    "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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"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."

Etymology

Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.