egg

a curate's egg: seecurate.

don't put all your eggs in one basket don't risk everything on the success of one venture. proverb

2013Better Farming-Ontario Community of Professional Farmers Any business knows it's not a safe play to have all your eggs in one basket, so that is why a company like Harmony likely decided to go after the small and mid range customers so their business model was diverse and not reliant on one big customer.

go suck an egg go away (used as an expression of anger or scorn). North American informal See also teach your grandmother to suck eggsatgrandmother.

1993Virginian Pilot & Ledger-Star (Norfolk, Va.) A place [in the country] where you can drop a line in the water from your back yard and tell the rest of the world to go suck an egg.

kill the goose that lays the golden egg: seegoose.

lay an egg be completely unsuccessful; fail badly. North American informal

sure as eggs is eggs: seesure.

walk on eggs: seewalk.

with egg on your face appearing foolish or ridiculous. informal