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Egg on your face

Egg on your face

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Count and sell your chickens before they hatch

To make unembarrassed business sense.

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Good egg

A British person (but not from the working class).

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Renaissance Egg
Egg presented by Dream Egg during courtship

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Originally posted by FMF
[b]Good egg

A British person (but not from the working class).[/b]
Bad egg
Americans, of course

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You can make an omelette without breaking eggs

Motto of door-to-door salesmen selling small drills.

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Don't go bacon my heart

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Originally [Egg on your face] meant merely to be embarrassed but nowadays is used to denote embarrassment or stupidity when something backfires.
Egg on your car

When you try to drive away suavely after an embarrassing contretemps and your car backfires.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not frying.
~Francis Bacon

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Egg in your coffee

Unfortunate consequence of having a blinding hangover

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To gulp egg

To compound self-inflicted embarrassment with embarrassing attempts to hide the egg that was on one's face using one's mouth.

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Two eggs in a pod

A couple of people who are aghast to find they were actually Peas all along.

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Eggs Benedict

A betrayed egg