Egg-citing Sayings and Phrases: Understanding Popular Egg Idioms

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Life is like an egg; you have to crack the shell to truly savor what’s inside.

Never put all your eggs in one basket.

An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Count not your chickens before they are hatched.

Every bird loves to hear himself sing.

It’s a rare bird that can lay a perfect egg.

Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

A hen is only an egg?s way of making another egg.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.?

The egg can be your best friend if it is handled with care.

Eggs are miracles in a shell.

You can’t unscramble an egg.

Eggs may well say of hammers, ?What?s all this fuss about birth??

Like a pebble affects the sea, so does every egg when set free.

Life’s too short to round up stray eggs.

You never know what you’ve got till your egg is cracked.

A good egg in the mix adds substance to life.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

The egg that is broken is not bad.

The egg doesn’t teach the hen.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act most wisely.

Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

As sure as eggs is eggs.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

The early bird gets the egg.

Hard boiled in the city, sunny side up in the country.

An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

No eggs, no omelette.

Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

He who would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hen.

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.

The egg can’t outwit the hen.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

It is hard to beat eggs.

An egg is a sunrise on a plate.

Some eggs always have double yolks but this doesn’t mean chickens have twins!

You cannot unscramble scrambled eggs.

A hen that lays golden eggs has been created.

But the egg came before the chicken just as the acorn antedates the oak.

A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg, even if you’re slightly cracked.

Until an egg cracks, you never know what’s inside.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

The chicken that laid the golden eggs.

An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.

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

Egg on one’s face.?

Go fry an egg.?

Kill the goose that lays the golden egg.?

Walking on eggshells.

Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.

It’s like the hen who believes she has created the sun.

Don’t expect to find a good egg in a crow’s nest.

Hatching the egg will not produce a chicken.

You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.

Egg of Columbus.

Every bird likes its own nest egg.

Which is the hen and which is the egg?

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

An egg thief does not begin stealing a whole chicken.

Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.