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Egg on your face

Origin of Phrases - E

 

Egg on your face

Meaning: To be embarrassed.

 

Example: Make sure you have your story straight, go public without the facts and you will have egg on your face.

 

Origin: From the embarrassment suffered if the yellow yoke is on ones lips or beard after eating a soft boiled egg in one of those egg cups, a favorite breakfast of the upper crust... Yellow egg shows up especially well on a beard or mustache.

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