You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, In order to reach your goal, it is necessary to do unpleasant things, A good egg, a decent or good person, A bad egg (or a rotten egg), a bad or very unpleasant person with criminal tendencies, An egghead, Someone clever, To get egg on his face, to be caught doing something stupid, Which came first, the chicken or the egg?, describes something which is a connundrum or a circular argument, Walking on eggshells, having to act carefully in order not to upset someone, Eggshell paint, a type of paint with a texture somewhere between matt and gloss, To egg someone on, to encourage someone fairly forcefully, It smells like rotten eggs, something suspicious or fraudulent going on, To be hard-boiled, someone who is tough, treading on eggshells, careful about what to say or do, put all your eggs in one basket, risking everything on one outcome, goose egg, a score of zero in a sports game, nest egg, an amount of money set aside and saved for a special purpose.

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