Egg on your face

Count and sell your chickens before they hatch

To make unembarrassed business sense.

Good egg

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

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Originally posted by FMF
[b]Good egg

A British person (but not from the working class).[/b]

You can make an omelette without breaking eggs

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

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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.

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

Egg in your coffee

Unfortunate consequence of having a blinding hangover

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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Eggs Benedict

A betrayed egg