lay eggs
English
Etymology
Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.
Verb
lay eggs
- (idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops.
- 1991, Peter Hay, Movie Anecdotes (page 111)
- 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)