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Oxford Dictionary of English
lay an egg N. Amer. informal be comVpletely unsuccessful. with egg on one's
face informal appearing foolish or ridiculous: don't underestimate this team, or
you'll be left with egg on your face. – derivatives eggless adjective. – origin
Middle ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... on a slice of toast and covered with hollandaise sauce: good egg (colloq) an
exclamation of approval; have or put all one's eggs into one basket (colloq) to risk
all on one enterprise: have, get or be left with egg on one's face (colloq) to be left
...
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Write in Style: A guide to good English
A hot potato means an urgent problem; to be left with egg on one's face means to
be embarrassed or to look foolish. The trouble is, of course, that potatoes aren't
famous for being made out of eggs; a potentially vigorous statement is again ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The expression is recorded from the mid 20th century. with egg on one's face
appearing foolish or ridiculous. After the US presidential election of 2000, when
the networks twice called the Florida election results prematurely and then had to
...
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... discomfited, disconcerted, upset, discomposed, flustered, agitated, distressed;
shy, bashful, tongue- tied; informal with egg on one's face, wishing the earth
would swallow one up. embarrassing adjective many embarrassing moments
have ...
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Colour Oxford Thesaurus
embarrassing | emit humiliated, mortified, red- faced, blushing, abashed, shamed
, ashamed, shamefaced, self-conscious, uncomfortable, discomfited,
disconcerted, flustered; informal with egg on one's face. embarrassing adjective
humiliating, ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite,
2011
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Classical Comedy: Armoury of Laughter, Democracy's Bastion ...
As the actors' saying goes, 'never left with egg on one's face' - except, of course,
when this is deliberately part of the fun itself, as in Lysistrata, when the heroine
summons her women supporters, some of them egg-sellers, flinging them in
battle ...
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Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations
... 14 8 a wise man of Gotham a fool; Gotham = a village proverbial for the folly of
its inhabitants 9 with egg on one's face appearing foolish or ridiculous quotations
▷ 10 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
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Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work
I have found this method of accenting an issue by displaying oneself with “egg on
one's face” to be most successful—not as a strategy for students' amusement, but
as a means of providing a personalized account to complement, and often ...
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April: Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 4
... way of ending up with egg on one's face. She looked up from her notes and
said, “According to what I've written down here, Steve Matheson accompanied
the Daventrys on Thursday afternoon and again Saturday morning. He was there
for ...