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lays an eggphrasepresent tense third-person singular of lay an egg to make a mistakeHis book report was going perfectly until he laid an egg and got the main character's name wrong. blunders, boobs(British), errs, flubs, fluffs, fouls up, fumbles, goofs (up), louses up, messes (up), screws up, slips up, stumbles, trips nodsbobbles, botches, bungles, butchers, foozles, mangles, mishandles, muffs, murdersmiscalculates, misconceives, miscounts, miscues, misdeems, misgauges, misjudges, mistakesmisconstrues, misinterprets, misunderstands drops the ball to be unsuccessfulThe gymnast nailed perfect landings on her first two vaults but really laid an egg on the third. bombs, collapses, craters, fails, flames out, flops, flunks, folds, founders, misses, strikes out, tanks, washes out flounders, strugglesdeclines, sinks, skids, slips, slumps, wanescrashes, crumbles, miscarries, misfiresgoes underimplodes, self-destructs comes a cropper, comes to grief, comes up empty, dies on the vine, falls flat, falls on one's face, falls short clicks, comes off, delivers, goes, goes over, pans out, succeeds, works out cooks, flourishes, prospers, thrivesprevails, triumphs, wins |