LAID AN EGG Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

laid an egg

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past tense of lay an egg

as in stumbled

to make a mistake His book report was going perfectly until he laid an egg and got the main character's name wrong.

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as in collapsed

to be unsuccessful The gymnast nailed perfect landings on her first two vaults but really laid an egg on the third.

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Yankees star Alex Rodriguez distracted Blue Jays third baseman Howie Clark by shouting at him on a key pop-up during the ninth inning, which spawned a near-fight after the infielder dropped the ball and a run scored.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Boston went ahead 3-2 in the fifth after reliever Jakob Junis dropped the ball while on the rubber, resulting in a balk that sent a runner home from third base.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of dropped the ball

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But in other areas, the tobacco settlement fell short of its goals.

— Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026
The 2025 Toyota bZ was also an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick+ award winner, but the 2026 version fell short of the organization's most stringent recent round of testing.

— Keith Laing, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

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Instead, the administration has proposed cutting more than 9,400 of my fellow workers and launched a new effort to privatize TSA — Horizon 25 — after the TSA Gold+ privatization campaign fell flat.

— Hydrick Thomas, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Challenges to General Assembly incumbents fell flat Anti-incumbent sentiment didn't trickle down to the General Assembly, where the small number of incumbents facing primary challenges all held on to their seats.

— Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 10 Sep. 2026

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