lay an egg

verb

Definitions

  1. To produce an egg.

  2. To produce a failure or flop

    To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful.

    • That author usually writes good stuff, but he really laid an egg with that last piece.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lay an egg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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