Omelette : noun A omelette is a dish made with eggs beaten et cooked to the stove to which we can add various ingredients.
Make an omelet: break something, cause damage.
Weak man: It's an omelet! : he is a coward.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs: for everything there is a price to pay for everything; there is a cost to everything undertaken; you don't get anything without running risks (see below).
Puffed omelette: pregnant woman.
"You can't make an omelet without chasing eggs": To achieve the desired result, you have to resolve to make certain inevitable sacrifices.
This is a proverbial phrase that is a bit pessimistic. She wants us to believe that, to succeed in obtaining something, there must necessarily be collateral damage, to use a fashionable term, or that it is obligatory to make sacrifices or agree to give up things. (money, advantage…).
This is a proverbial phrase that is a bit pessimistic. She wants us to believe that, to succeed in obtaining something, there must necessarily be collateral damage, to use a fashionable term, or that it is obligatory to make sacrifices or agree to give up things. (money, advantage…).
Admittedly the image evoked by the expression corresponds perfectly to this diagram, but is it obligatory to generalize?
This phrase appeared in the middle of the XNUMXth century. But previously, in the XNUMXth century, the locution make an omelet meant "to break fragile things".