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lay eggs

To produce a string of failures or flops.

Etymology:

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

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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