egg on | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toencourageorcoax(a person) to do something, especially somethingfoolhardyorreckless.Synonym:provoke1586,William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, inAlbions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island:[…], London:[…]George Robinson[and R. Ward]for Thomas Cadman,[…],→OCLC,page86:The Neatreſſe longing for the reſt, dideggehimonto tell / How faire ſhe vvas, and vvho ſhe vvas.1891February–December,Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XXV, inIn the South Seas[…], New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons, published1896,→OCLC:He resented the idea of interference from those who had[…]eggedhimonto a new peril.1892, chapter 35, in Lesslie Hall, transl.,Beowulf:Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of ironsegged onto murder,1921October 8 – December 31,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, inMostly Sally[The Adventures of Sally], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:George H[enry] Doran Company, published23 March 1923,→OCLC:She had deliberatelyeggedhimonto wreck his prospects.

Examples:

EN: You've got egg on your necktie again.
ES: Tienes un huevo en la corbata otra vez.
EN: Yeah. Kenneth Bixby wouldn't have egg on his necktie.
ES: Kenneth Bixby no tendría huevo en su corbata.
EN: You stick the egg on.
ES: Mantente en tus trece.
EN: Hot! You could fry an egg on it.
ES: - ¡Tan caliente que podrías freír un huevo!
EN: Get egg on a flowing tie.
ES: Una corbata manchada de huevo.
EN: But I had a heck of a time trying to eat my egg on toast in the dark.
ES: Me ha costado lo mío tomar mi cena a oscuras.
EN: I think, Stevie would like a nice poached egg on toast and I'll have a mixed salad.
ES: - Un pastel de huevo para Stevie. Y para mí una ensalada mixta.
EN: Do you find you need that egg on the left?
ES: - ¿Se comerá ese huevo de allí?
EN: I am standing around with egg on my face!
ES: ¡Aquí parado pasando vergüenza!
EN: And if he has egg on his face, somebody's tossed a whole omelette on mine.
ES: Si él está pasando vergüenza, mi situación es aún peor.
EN: Otherwise, the Willies will get you... little brown men with egg on their whiskers.
ES: Esos horribles animalillos.
EN: Just a couple of flies, a sip of milk and perhaps a pigeon's egg on Sundays.
ES: Unas cuantas moscas, un sorbito de leche y quizás un huevo de paloma los domingos.
EN: Al and me will frame up an act hot enough to fry an egg on.
ES: Al y yo haremos un acto tan caliente como para freír un huevo.
EN: You can fry an egg on that highway at noon.
ES: Puede freír un huevo en esa carretera al mediodía.
EN: We was coming home from Aden. Hot? You could have fried an egg on the deck.
ES: Era otoño y se podía freír un huevo en la cubierta.

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