Lay eggs
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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."
Synonyms
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More examples"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.