英语词汇“to lay an egg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

9. To produce and deposit (an egg). Also absol. Often in figurative contexts. Also figurative phrase to lay an egg, used in various colloquial senses, spec.: (a) (of an aircraft) to drop a bomb; (b) originally U.S. (of a performer or performance) to flop.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs)

layc1000

warpa1340

cast1587

spawna1616

spawna1617

deposit1692

oviposit1847

spit1847

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > drop bomb

to lay an egg1918

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]

withsitc1330

fail1340

defaulta1382

errc1430

to fall (also go) by the wayside1526

misthrive1567

miss1599

to come bad, or no, speedc1600

shrink1608

abortivea1670

maroon1717

to flash in the pan1792

skunk1831

to go to the dickens1833

to miss fire1838

to fall flat1841

fizzle1847

to lose out1858

to fall down1873

to crap out1891

flivver1912

flop1919

skid1920

to lay an egg1929

to blow out1939

to strike out1946

bomb1963

to come (also have) a buster1968

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 204 Henne ægru lecgan gestreon mid carfulnysse ge[tacnað].

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid ne con bute cakelin.

13.. K. Alis. 568 A faukon..An ay he laide.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 583 Wiltow they oftyn hacche & eyron grete They legge.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlix Thou must take hede howe thy hennes, duckes, and gees do ley.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aij I wold be loth to lay an egge, wherof other men might hatche a serpent.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxxiv. 15 There shall the great owle make her nest, and lay and hatch.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 230 Like Nest-eggs, to make Clients lay.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶14 When she has laid her Eggs in such a Manner that she can cover them.

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 239 Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid In every bosom where her nest is made.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. i. 21 One of the hens laid astray.

1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 23 [They] lay their eggs in the bodies of other insects.

1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 6/4 [Pheasants] lay freely in the thick coverts on the hillsides.

1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 335 Eggs, bombs weighing twenty pounds and upward filled with high explosives and ‘laid’ in Hunland.

1927 Daily Express 2 June 11/2 ‘Laying an egg’ in Air Force slang means dropping a bomb.

1929 Variety 30 Oct. 1 (headline) Wall Street lays an egg... The most dramatic event in the financial history of America is the collapse of the New York Stock Market.

1940 J. O'Hara Pal Joey 38 You would just as well come wearing a shell if you ever took a job [singing] in a spot like this, that is how big an egg you would lay.

1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop iii. 30 The singer had been laying eggs at the Zanzibar..and Shaw was undecided what to do with him.

1958 Spectator 6 June 730/2 The second gambit, when a joke is so drearily bad..that even a studio audience can't laugh at it, is to admit, quite shamelessly, that one has, as they say, laid an egg.

1964 People (Austral.) 16 Dec. 45/1 A Stuka caught us in the town of Lamia. The plane duly laid an egg. I was crouched alongside a wall. The bomb landed on the other side of the wall.

单词	to lay an egg
释义	> as lemmas to lay an egg 9. To produce and deposit (an egg). Also absol. Often in figurative contexts. Also figurative phrase to lay an egg, used in various colloquial senses, spec.: (a) (of an aircraft) to drop a bomb; (b) originally U.S. (of a performer or performance) to flop. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs) layc1000 warpa1340 cast1587 spawna1616 spawna1617 deposit1692 oviposit1847 spit1847 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > drop bomb to lay an egg1918 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] withsitc1330 fail1340 defaulta1382 errc1430 to fall (also go) by the wayside1526 misthrive1567 miss1599 to come bad, or no, speedc1600 shrink1608 abortivea1670 maroon1717 to flash in the pan1792 skunk1831 to go to the dickens1833 to miss fire1838 to fall flat1841 fizzle1847 to lose out1858 to fall down1873 to crap out1891 flivver1912 flop1919 skid1920 to lay an egg1929 to blow out1939 to strike out1946 bomb1963 to come (also have) a buster1968 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 204 Henne ægru lecgan gestreon mid carfulnysse ge[tacnað]. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid ne con bute cakelin. 13.. K. Alis. 568 A faukon..An ay he laide. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 583 Wiltow they oftyn hacche & eyron grete They legge. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlix Thou must take hede howe thy hennes, duckes, and gees do ley. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aij I wold be loth to lay an egge, wherof other men might hatche a serpent. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxxiv. 15 There shall the great owle make her nest, and lay and hatch. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 230 Like Nest-eggs, to make Clients lay. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶14 When she has laid her Eggs in such a Manner that she can cover them. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 239 Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid In every bosom where her nest is made. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. i. 21 One of the hens laid astray. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 23 [They] lay their eggs in the bodies of other insects. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 6/4 [Pheasants] lay freely in the thick coverts on the hillsides. 1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 335 Eggs, bombs weighing twenty pounds and upward filled with high explosives and ‘laid’ in Hunland. 1927 Daily Express 2 June 11/2 ‘Laying an egg’ in Air Force slang means dropping a bomb. 1929 Variety 30 Oct. 1 (headline) Wall Street lays an egg... The most dramatic event in the financial history of America is the collapse of the New York Stock Market. 1940 J. O'Hara Pal Joey 38 You would just as well come wearing a shell if you ever took a job [singing] in a spot like this, that is how big an egg you would lay. 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop iii. 30 The singer had been laying eggs at the Zanzibar..and Shaw was undecided what to do with him. 1958 Spectator 6 June 730/2 The second gambit, when a joke is so drearily bad..that even a studio audience can't laugh at it, is to admit, quite shamelessly, that one has, as they say, laid an egg. 1964 People (Austral.) 16 Dec. 45/1 A Stuka caught us in the town of Lamia. The plane duly laid an egg. I was crouched alongside a wall. The bomb landed on the other side of the wall. extracted from layv.¹ < as lemmas
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