Tag: have egg on your face
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Back into a corner
Idiom: Back into a corner What a difference 50 days make. On February 24th, Vladimir Putin was preparing victory parades for a puppet Ukrainian regime after running over the Ukrainian military and Zelenskyy government. He thought the Ukrainians would be quickly backed into a corner and forced to surrender. Sometimes things don’t go exactly as…
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Have egg on your face
Phrase: Have egg on your face In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins gives Gollum a riddle. A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. It took Gollum a few minutes to figure it out, but eventually, he got it. The answer is eggs. Eggs are beautiful things with a…
