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laying eggs

laying eggs is the present participle and gerund of lay eggs.

Meaning of lay eggs

Verb

lay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid eggs)

  1. (idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops.
    • Despite his dictum that “when you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint,” this particular turkey was laying eggs all over America.1991, Peter Hay, Movie Anecdotes, page 111

Questions about laying eggs

What is laying eggs the present participle and gerund of?
Laying eggs is the present participle and gerund of lay eggs.

Words near laying eggs in the dictionary

  1. laying down one's arms
  2. laying down one's life
  3. laying down one's weapons
  4. laying down the law
  5. laying down the marker
  6. laying eggs
  7. laying eyes on
  8. laying for
  9. laying hands on
  10. laying hen
  11. laying hens

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