See lay eggs on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "Variant of lay an egg, using the plural form.", "forms": [ { "form": "lays eggs", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "laying eggs", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "laid eggs", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "laid eggs", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "lay<,,laid> eggs" }, "expansion": "lay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid eggs)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1991, Peter Hay, Movie Anecdotes, page 111:", "text": "Despite his dictum that “when you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint,” this particular turkey was laying eggs all over America.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To produce a string of failures or flops." ], "links": [ [ "string", "string" ], [ "failure", "failure" ], [ "flop", "flop" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-lay eggs.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bc/En-au-lay_eggs.ogg/En-au-lay_eggs.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/En-au-lay_eggs.ogg" } ], "word": "lay eggs" }
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