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The personification of evil Roy Cohn layed 2 eggs, from which Donald Trump and Roger Stone hatched ... "
Gore Vidal

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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lay an egg
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lay an egg
1. To bear an egg, as of animals such as birds.
Did the hen lay an egg today?
2. To do something very poorly.
We really laid an egg last night and lost the game 7–0.
See also: an, egg, lay
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
lay an egg
1. Lit. [for a hen, etc.] to deposit an egg. Old Red stopped laying eggs, so we stewed her for Sunday dinner.
2. Fig. [for someone] to do something bad or poorly; to perform poorly on stage. I guess I really laid an egg, huh? The cast laid an egg in both performances.
See also: an, egg, lay
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
lay an egg
Fail, especially in a public performance; make a humiliating error. For example, Carol really laid an egg last night when she forgot her lines, or, as Variety had it in October 1929: "Wall Street Lays An Egg." The term originated in the late 1800s in vaudeville and was extended to nontheatrical failures in the early 1900s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
lay an egg AMERICAN, INFORMAL
If something lays an egg, it fails because people are not interested in it or do not want it. Independent studies showed the ad laid an egg. Long before they had finished making it, Stamp knew that the movie would lay an egg. Note: This expression is probably derived from the idea of an egg being round and therefore resembling a zero. A `duck' (duck's egg) is a score of zero in British sport, and the equivalent in American sport is a `goose egg'.
See also: an, egg, lay
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
lay an egg be completely unsuccessful; fail badly. North American informal
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
lay an ;egg (informal, especially American English) fail or make a mistake: He laid an egg with these proposals with the very people he wanted most to convince. ; Columnists sometimes lay an egg, but Martin has laid an ostrich omelette.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
lay an egg
1. tv. [for someone] to do something bad or poorly. I guess I really laid an egg, huh?
2. tv. [for something] to fail. The community theater laid an egg last night with the opening performance of Death of a Salesman. The film was fun to make, but it laid an egg at the box office.
3. tv. to laugh very hard; to cackle long and loudly. (As if one were a chicken.) Half the audience laid an egg when I told this one.
See also: an, egg, lay
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
lay an egg Informal
To fail, especially in a public performance.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
lay an egg, to
To fail, to make an embarrassing mistake. In Britain this term comes from cricket, where a player or team failing to score has, since the mid-nineteenth century, been said to get a duck’s egg (meaning 0, or zero). In America the term appeared in the latter part of the nineteenth century in vaudeville and theater, similarly signifying a flop of a performance. It was transferred to other arenas by the early twentieth century, and fittingly, a headline in Variety (the American chronicle of show business at the time) read, in October 1929, “Wall Street Lays An Egg.”
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The Dictionary of Clich;s by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
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