lay eggs

English

Etymology

Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.

Pronunciation

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Verb

lay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid 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.