lay eggs

verb

lay eggs

verb

Etymology Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.

1

Idiomatic To 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:

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