fresh country eggs

noun

A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.

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nounfresh country eggs pl (normally plural, singular fresh country egg)

singular fresh country egg

  1. pluralplural normallyA common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
  2. pluralplural normallyUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.

    He started shipping about half a case of fresh country eggs to my parents every week or two.

    2008, Bill Rieckhoff, The God Who Discovered Me: A Spiritual Journey, page 8
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    It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade.

    1914, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin, numbers 601-625, page 17

    Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw.

    2006, Frank J. Kennedy, A Corner Boy Remembers: Growing Up in St. John's, page 8
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