Phrase Hound found 145 phrases and 14 compound words that contain eggs. The most common are listed below. Open eggs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 145
- bacon and eggsA dish consisting of bacon and (usually fried) eggs, usually eaten for breakfast.
- price of eggsSomething that is relevant or important, usually used to emphasize that another, compared thing is irrelevant, unimportant, or non sequitur.
- scrambled eggsplural of scrambled egg: A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk, and typically stirred while cooking.
- Easter eggsplural of Easter egg: A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
- boiled eggsplural of boiled egg: An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.
- butter-and-eggsA flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow toadflax; common toadflax.
- eggs and baconAlternative form of bacon and eggs (“breakfast dish”).
- lay eggsTo produce a string of failures or flops.
- ham and eggsA dish of ham served with fried or scrambled eggs.
- eggs BenedictA dish consisting of slices of English muffins with poached eggs, ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
- eggs in the basketplural of egg in the basket: Alternative form of egg in a basket: synonym of egg in a hole.
- teach grandma how to suck eggsTo tell an expert how to do things.
- eggs FlorentineA variation of eggs Benedict with spinach, sometimes in place of bacon.
- teach grandma to suck eggsAlternative form of teach grandma how to suck eggs: To tell an expert how to do things.
- you can't make an omelette without breaking eggsIn order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.
- bad eggsplural of bad egg: Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue.
- century eggsplural of century egg: A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.
- chocolate eggsplural of chocolate egg: An Easter treat in the shape of an egg (usually much smaller) made of chocolate, wrapped in festively decorated aluminum foil.
- garden eggsplural of garden egg: A plant or fruit of certain species of eggplant:
- golden eggsplural of golden egg: A source of consistent profit or advantage, or the profit gained by such advantage.
- Russian eggsplural of Russian egg: A type of hard-boiled or poached egg topped with mayonnaise, and served with lettuce or salad.
- sea eggsplural of sea egg: A sea urchin.
- tea eggsplural of tea egg: An Asian snack consisting of a boiled egg that is cracked and then boiled again in tea.
- wind eggsplural of wind egg: An egg that is somehow lacking (e.g. lacking the yolk or the shell).
- Eggs and Bacon BayA locality in Huon Valley council area, southern Tasmania, Australia.
Compound words 14
- RolexA luxury wristwatch produced by the brand Rolex SA.
- eggsadillaA quesadilla with egg as a filling.
- eggstentExtent, in the context of eggs or Easter.
- eggstravagantExtravagant, in the context of eggs or Easter.
- eggshellsplural of eggshell: The shell around an egg.
- eggspoonAlternative form of egg spoon: A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell.
- aftereggsplural of afteregg: A meroblastic egg, ovum, or ovule which has acquired its store of foodyolk, or been otherwise modified from its original primitive condition as an egg-cell or protovum
- eggsacsplural of eggsac: A protective capsule that contains the eggs of some insects and molluscs
- eggspoonsplural of eggspoon: A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell.
- eggspotsplural of eggspot: A coloured spot, on the anal fin of some fish, believed to mimic eggs.