idioms involving “egg”

Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket

Spread risk, diversify

“It’s too risky to put all of your eggs in one basket like technology stocks. You have to diversify your investments.”

Egg on

To encourage someone to do something wrong

“The student started to argue with the policeman and his friends egged him on.”

You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs

You can’t achieve something great without upsetting a few people

“The software designer upset many programmers when he erased thousands of lines of their code and rewrote the program from the beginning. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.”

Lay an egg

To be very upset or angry

“The supervisor was so angry about the layoffs that he was about to lay an egg.”

Good egg

A person of good character

“Everyone was pleased to see Sakai-san get the promotion; she is a good egg.” Note: A bad egg is a person of bad character.