Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Creative Caffeine: EGG-centered phrases

I decided to make a list of Egg-centered phrases and cliches, (which morphed in to recipe names and other bird centered phrases, idioms and lyrics), that we use in our everyday lexicon. If you have more feel free to add them in the comment section. :)

* Egg (someone) on
* Egg on (someone's) face
* A goose egg
* All your eggs in one basket
* Walking on egg shells
* Egg-head
* Bacon and eggs
* Sunny side up
* Playing chicken
* Why did the chicken cross the road?
* Chicken feed
* Chicken coop
* Fly the coop
* Chicken Little
* Chicken Nuggets
* Chicken wing
* S'matter? You Chicken?
* Chicken scratchings
* Hen and Chicks
* Chick peas
* Egg salad sandwich
* Chicken shit
* Chicken Little
* Spring Chicken
* Which came first? The chicken or the Egg?
* Scrambled eggs
* Eggs Benedict
* (Last one there is a) Rotten Egg
* A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
* Duck, duck, goose
* Goose step
* Little Red Hen
* Henny Penny, and the rest...
* Eggo's
* Kentucky Fried Chicken; Churches Chicken
* Chicken a la king
* egging a house
* oeuf
* qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf
* Omelette
* eats like a bird
* duck a l'orange
* goose is cooked
* christmas goose
* christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...
* Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
* ducks in a row

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