a ________ egg= a likable and pleasant person
good
A _________ egg= a bad, unreliable or dishonest person
bad
you can't make an _______ without breaking eggs=it is hard to achieve something important without causing unpleasant effects
omlette
______ egg=money saved for an emergency or retirement
nest
egg________=a person who is very clever and interested only in studying and other mental activities
head
can't _______ an egg=someone who cannot cook even the simplest meal
boil
walk on ______= to be very careful not to offend or upset someone
eggshells
be one egg short of a _________=to be not very intelligent or of questionable mental capacity
dozen
to egg _____ somebody=to encourage or urge somebody to do sth, esp. sth unwise or bad
on
put all your eggs in one _________=to risk everything on the success of a single venture
basket
be a ________ egg to crack= a person who is very difficult to understand or a problem that is very difficult to solve
hard
kill the goose that _______ the golden eggs=to destroy a reliable source of income
lays
have egg on one's _________= to look stupid because of something that you have done
face
_______ and egg= a situation in which it is difficult or impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other one
chicken