Collective Nouns, Idioms, Metaphors and Expressions

Eggs

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

• A clutch of eggs
• A batch of eggs  .........................  in a recipe
• A carton of eggs .........................  in a shop
• A dozen eggs  .............................  in a shop
• A sitting of eggs
• A setting of eggs

IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

• A bad egg
• A curate's egg
• A good egg
• All your eggs in one basket
• As sure as eggs is eggs
• Big butter and egg man
• Columbus and the egg
• Egg head
• Egg me on
• Egg on my face
• Go to work on an egg
• Goose egg
• Hatched, matched and dispatched
• He that would have eggs, must endure the cackling of hens
• Nest egg
• Suck eggs
• Skunk egg
• Walk on eggshells
• You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs