Easter Eggs

Soon it will be Easter and people all over the world will be buying, making or decorating their Easter eggs ready to present them to their friends, colleagues and family.

Since eggs form a large part of Easter celebrations I thought it would be a good time to look at some idiomatic expressions related to eggs.

The first idiom is 'to put all your eggs in one basket' which means that you depend on only one person or one plan of action to succeed. Obviously doing this is quite risky as you may lose all you eggs and fail to succeed. It is often used in the negative; Don't put all your eggs into one basket!

The second idiom is 'to teach your grandmother to suck eggs' which means that you are giving advice to somebody about something that they are more expert in than yourself.

You are teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I have been playing this game since before you were born!
The third and final idiom of this entry is 'to walk on eggs / eggshells' which is used when we want to describe somebody who is being very careful not to offend or upset another person.

We're walking on eggshells with our landlord at the moment, one more loud party and she is sure to throw us out of the apartment!

There are of course a lot more idiomatic expressions containing the word egg. Perhaps you would like to investigate more yourselves and then post a comment in the comment box about anything interesting you find!