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put an egg in one's shoe and beat it en · VERB

Etymology

A pun on beat it (“go away, scram”) and the process of beating eggs in cookery, with a person's shoe seen as a means of departure from a place.

Meanings

  1. (imperative, slang) To go away; get lost; scram.
    • At twenty to ten, Henry Beaufort, bartender and owner of The Mellow Tiger, had invited Hugh to put an egg in his shoe and beat it, to make like a tree and leave, to imitate an amoeba and split — in other words, to get the fuck out. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
    • You better put an egg in your shoe and beat it before incidents occur to you. 1910, O. Henry, “What You Want”, in Strictly Different:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
put an egg in one's shoe and beat it Tense=Past lexicographic
puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting an egg in one's shoe and beating it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic