egg-sucker - Someone who seeks out the approval, attention, and/or support of others, especially superiors, through abject subservience or flattery, (as) bald as an egg - completely hairless, don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched - Don't make plans based on future events, outcomes, or successes that might not come to pass., be one egg short of an omelet - To be unintelligent or of questionable mental capacity, be a rotten egg - To be thoroughly and innately corrupt, dishonest, or immoral., good egg - Someone who is known to be trustworthy and kind., put all your eggs into one basket - risk all your money, effort, etc. on one thing, so that if it is not successful, you have no other chance, tough egg to crack - A person, thing, situation, or problem that is particularly difficult to understand, solve, or deal with., the goose that lays the golden egg - A person, thing, or organization that is or has the potential to earn a lot of money for a long period of time., you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs - Sometimes, you have to do unpleasant things in order to complete a task or meet a goal., can't boil an egg - Cannot cook well or at all., What do you want, egg in your beer? - Something for nothing; a free, unnecessary bonus or favor. , walk on eggshells - To act with great care and consideration so as not to upset someone., wipe the egg of your face - To have been embarrassed or made a fool by some public failure or faux pas., butter-and-egg man - A wealthy, unworldly person who spends freely when in the big city., better an egg today than a hen tomorrow - It is better to have something less valuable in one's immediate possession than to pursue something more valuable that one may not be able to obtain., egghead - A derogatory term for an intelligent, studious person., over-egg the pudding - To get something wrong or make something worse by doing too much of something or trying too hard to improve a situation., a nest egg - a sum of money saved for the future, a wild goose never laid a tame egg - Something will not be spontaneously different from that which came before. The phrase is used to describe things that are determined by nature and the environment,,

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