fresh country eggs
fresh country eggs noun: a common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
Noun
fresh country eggs pl (normally plural, singular fresh country egg)
- A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.
- It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade.1914, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin, numbers 601-625, page 17
- Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw.2006, Frank J. Kennedy, A Corner Boy Remembers: Growing Up in St. John's, page 8
Forms of fresh country eggs
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Questions about fresh country eggs
- What does fresh country eggs mean?
- Fresh country eggs means a common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
- What part of speech is fresh country eggs?
- Fresh country eggs is a noun.
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