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put an egg in one's shoe and beat it

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables
put an eg-g in one's shoe and beat- it
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To go away; get lost; scram.

Slang

Example Sentences

Etymology

A pun on beat it (“go away, scram”) and the process of beating eggs in cookery, with a person's shoe seen as a means of departure from a place.

Usage

Inflected Forms

puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it (present, singular) putting an egg in one's shoe and beating it (participle, present) put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it (participle, past)

Questions

What does put an egg in one's shoe and beat it mean?
To go away; get lost; scram.
Where does put an egg in one's shoe and beat it come from?
A pun on beat it (“go away, scram”) and the process of beating eggs in cookery, with a person's shoe seen as a means of departure from a place.

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