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fresh country eggs

noun

Definitions

  1. A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in…

    A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.

    • It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade.
    • Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw.
    • He started shipping about half a case of fresh country eggs to my parents every week or two.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA