Meanings
verblay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid eggs)
present singular third person lays eggs · participle present laying eggs · participle past laid eggs · past laid eggs
- idiomaticTo produce a string of failures or flops.
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
Origin
Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.
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