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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

lay an egg


To fail, or to have one’s efforts fall flat: “Jim tried to tell a few jokes, but each time he forgot the punch line and laid an egg.”	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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