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Egg on Your Face
12.16.03 (5:25 pm)   [edit]
This idiom comes from Emily, complete with her very own illustration!

When Kent split his pants in class, he had egg on his face.

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The idiom "egg on my face" means to be very embarassed or humiliated for something foolish that you did or said.

This American saying is probably from the 1950's. It could have come from the image of a sloppy eater, embarassed because they had food on his face. Or it might have come from the custom of rude audiences in the old days throwing raw eggs at performers they did not like.
 

posted by: Keith (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (6:54 am)

One day I was slowly walking to my mom's car with books in my arms. Then I tripped! The books flew all over the place. I had egg on my face!


posted by: M.M.C./ Jennifer (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (6:58 am)

I had egg on my face when I tripped over my shoelace!!!


posted by: Yoceline (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:13 am)

One day I had egg on my face when the teacher asked me a question in front of the whole class. I did not know the answer!


posted by: Jacqueline (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:15 am)

My friend, Guadalupe, had egg on her face when she spilled her milk all over my jeans!


posted by: Derrick (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:17 am)

I was in the neighborhood and I was wearing my old slinky shorts and they ripped. I felt like I had egg on my face.


posted by: Luz (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:20 am)

My brother had egg on his face when he fell off the bed!


posted by: Noe (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:21 am)

Fernando, my brother, had egg on his face when he kicked the soccer ball and his shoe flew off his foot!


posted by: Cristian (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (7:26 am)

When I first came to the United States and my teacher was talking in English I had egg on my face because I did not understand anything she was saying.
(dictated to Noe)


posted by: SuperThinker (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (9:27 am)

When I sang the wrong verse during a whole school performance, I really had egg on my face!


posted by: Catrinna Jinemez--SuperThinker's Neice (reply)
post date: 12.20.03 (4:27 pm)

One day I fell down and a boy caught me and I had egg on my face!


posted by: Athina--SuperThinker's Neice (reply)
post date: 12.20.03 (4:32 pm)

One day I came home from my Grandpa's house, then I fell because my shoelace was untied, I had egg on my face.


posted by: Anthony--SuperThinker's Nephew (reply)
post date: 12.20.03 (4:36 pm)

In the third grade I got in a fight and I fell on my face because someone tripped me, and I had egg on my face.


posted by: Eric--SuperThinker's nephew (reply)
post date: 12.20.03 (4:48 pm)

One day when I went to school I got hit in the stomach with a football and I had egg on my face.


posted by: Nancy Jo (reply)
post date: 02.18.04 (2:49 pm)

I fell in front of my class after telling them how graceful I am, now I have egg on my face.


posted by: Carl (reply)
post date: 03.26.06 (9:17 pm)

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