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lay an egg

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lay an egg (American, informal)
to fail to make people enjoy or be interested in something. Our first two sketches got big laughs, but the next two laid an egg.
See also: egg, lay
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tells of a young duck who sees his mother lay an egg and discovers the magic of egg origins.
It's Quacking Time! by Children's Bookwatch
Goodhart's new chicks, Charlene, refuses to lay an egg like her sisters Henrietta, Geraldine, and Clara.
The Hen That Crowed by Fader, Ellen / The Horn Book Magazine
In 1993, Elmes and his Winfrith colleague Jeremy Thomas hypothesized that the wasp incites ant fights as a distraction on two occasions: when the youngster departs from the ant nest and again when a mother enters a nest to lay an egg.
Sniff ... Pow! Wasps use chemicals to start ant brawls. (This Week) by Milius, S. / Science News
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