lay eggs

English

Etymology

Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.

Verb

lay eggs

  1. (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.
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