Egg Idioms

Idioms_ “EGG” By _ Jeong-In, Oh .

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
something that you say which means it is difficult to achieve something important without causing any unpleasant effects.
Twenty jobs will have to be cut if the company's going to be made more efficient. But you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs

put all your eggs in one basket
to risk losing everything by putting all your efforts or all your money into one plan or one course of action.
If you're going to invest the money, my advice would be don't put all your eggs in one basket.

a chicken and egg situation
a situation in which it is impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other.
It's a chicken and egg situation - I don't know whether I was bad at the sciences because I wasn't interested in them or not interested in them and therefore not good at them.

good egg (old-fashioned, humorous)
a person with good qualities such as kindness.
He's a good egg, your brother - he visited me every day while I was ill.

a bad egg (mainly American, informal)
someone who behaves in a bad or dishonest way.
He's a bad egg - don't believe anything he says

The End BYE~

Egg Idioms

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