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11lay an egg — phrasal 1. : to fail to get a favorable response (as from an audience) : fall flat : fizzle 2. slang : to drop a bomb * * * lay an egg (slang, chiefly US) (of a joke, comedian, theatrical performance, etc) to fail, flop • • • …
12lay an egg — fail to win the interest or favor of an audience Although he was supposed to be a good magician, his performance was terrible and it laid an egg with the audience …
13lay an egg — 1. tv. [for someone] to do something bad or poorly. □ I guess I really laid an egg, huh? □ The cast laid an egg in both performances. 2. tv. [for something] to fail. □ The community theater laid an egg last night with the opening performance of… …
14lay\ an\ egg — v. phr. slang To fail to win the interest or favor of an audience. His joke laid an egg. Sometimes he is a successful speaker, but sometimes he lays an egg …
15Patrick Le Lay — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lay. Patrick Le Lay, né le 7 juin 1942 à Saint Brieuc, est un dirigeant d entreprise français et ancien président directeur général de TF1. Il est actuellement le président du Stade rennais football club.… …
16Rights of audience — In English law, a right of audience is a right to appear and conduct proceedings in court. [ cite book | author=Curzon, L.B. | title=Dictionary of Law | edition=6th ed. | publisher=Longman | location=London | id=ISBN 0 582 43809 8 | year=2002 |… …
17Life of Soul — ( Lyfe of Soule ) is a short anonymous prose tract written in the late Middle English of the English midlands about 1400 or a little earlier.FormThe tract takes the form of a catechetical dialogue, or at least begins that way, one interlocutor… …
18Wild fox koan — The wild fox kōan, also known as Pai chang s fox and Hyakujō and a Fox, is an influential kōan story in the Zen tradition dating back as early as 1036, when it appeared in the Chinese biographical history T ien sheng kuang teng lu . It was also… …
19Scientific American — Infobox Journal title= Scientific American abbreviation= Sci Am discipline= Interdisciplinary language= English website= http://www.sciam.com/ publisher= Scientific American, Inc. country= USA history= 1845 to present ISSN = 0036 8733 Scientific… …
20Act structure — explains how a plot of a film story is composed. Just like plays (Staged drama) have Acts , critics and screenwriters tend to divide films into acts; though films don t require to be physically broken down as such in reality. Whereas plays are… …
