Egg : noun Un œuf is a more or less large, hard and rounded body produced by female birds and which contains the germ of the embryo and the substances intended to nourish it during incubation.
You egg, you idiot.
What an egg! : What an imbecile !
Do not egg on it: do not behave like an idiot.
Egg skull: bald; bald as an egg.
Egg head or skull: intellectual.
Get lost ! : go and show yourself (formula to get rid of an intruder).
To send someone to cook an egg: to reject him.
Have it in the bud: be cheated, duped.
Having the colonial egg: having guts.
To have it in the bud: to have been duped, to have.
Hen that lays golden eggs: a very rewarding activity without much effort.
Fried eggs: small and flat female breast.
Break your egg: miscarry.
Shear an egg: be stingy.
Have two fried eggs: small breasts.
Full as an egg: super-filled, not being able to contain anything more.
Full as an egg: full, drunk, drunk.
Walking on eggshells: act with caution, being careful; behave with great caution in a delicate situation.
To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs destroy by greed or impatience the source of a large profit.
Kill in the bud: neutralize, abandon a project before its realization (see the expression below).
Drive with an egg under your foot, under the accelerator: drive with a lot of flexibility (motorsport jargon) or with a lot of caution (ice, rain).
Crack an egg: do a bullshit.
Break your egg: miscarry.
To shear an egg: to be extremely greedy, to be broke.
It's like the egg of (Christopher) Columbus, you had to think about it! : said of a realization that seems simple but which supposes an ingenious idea (anecdote of Columbus severing the end of an egg to make it stand).
Pigeon egg: bags under the eyes.
Easter egg: pomegranate.
To lay eggs: to be loaded (revolver).
It's like the egg and the chicken, we do not know where it started (of linked causes).
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs: you have nothing without sacrifices, without violence.
Put all your eggs in one basket: commit all your resources to the same business; to make one's fate depend on a single thing or to make a company depend on a single element (and thus run the risk of losing everything).
Hard-boiled egg: swallow or swallow theHard eggis to do a particularly deep fellatio.
The phrase: "Kill / crush / nip in the bud": Stop something, hush up a case from the start, from the start.
For a very long time, the egg has been the metaphorical symbol of the germ, of the beginning, by analogy with the embryonic state. Isn't it in an egg that life is born?
We only have to go back to Horace, in the 1st century BC. AD, and its Latin expression ab egg which means "from the egg" to be convinced.
Still, metaphorically, to kill a business or a project in the bud is to stop it even before it has the slightest chance to emerge from the shell where it had started to germinate.
It would be Victor Hugo (1802-1885) who, in 1830, was the first to use the locution crush in the egg, resumed only from 1932 by the Dictionary of the French Academy.