lay eggs en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops.
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.
1991, Peter Hay, Movie Anecdotes, page 111:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| laying eggs | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lays eggs | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| laid eggs | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| laid eggs | Tense=Past | lexicographic |