Idiom
lay eggs
Meaning
To produce a string of failures or flops.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The director keeps laying eggs with his recent movies.”
“The team was expected to win the championship, but they laid eggs in every single playoff game.”
“Despite the massive budget and star-studded cast, the studio laid eggs with three consecutive summer releases, leading to significant financial losses.”
Examples
simple
“The director keeps laying eggs with his recent movies.”
contextual
“The team was expected to win the championship, but they laid eggs in every single playoff game.”
complex
“Despite the massive budget and star-studded cast, the studio laid eggs with three consecutive summer releases, leading to significant financial losses.”
Origin
A variant of the singular idiom *lay an egg*, adopted into English usage through the simple substitution of the plural form.
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