lay eggs
Verb
Meaning
lay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid eggs)
(idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops.
Examples
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside of me. The chickens lay their eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs.
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
If you are a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs.
No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs.
Adults may require emergent or waterside plants to use as perches; others may need specific submerged or floating plants on which to lay eggs.
Adults migrate to tributary streams in late winter or early spring to lay eggs over gravel and rock, although there are open water reef or shoal spawning strains as well.