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Meanings of rotten eggs in English

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Usage of rotten eggs in English
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If we want to help, send them mouldy curry or rotten eggs.
Reuters
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There was a tremendous tempest of sticks, brickbats, paving-stones, and rotten eggs.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
3
The ground gurgled, and there was a sudden scent of rotten eggs.
Summer knight
4
It put him in mind not of Hades but of rotten eggs.
American Gods
5
Would I had rotten eggs; but this will do as well.
English Fairy Tales
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To dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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Especially this one, which smelled like rotten eggs from time to time anyway.
John Dies at the End
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She said an odor similar to rotten eggs filled the air.
Reuters
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Are the epithets flung at them liker bouquets or rotten eggs?
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
10
What cared Wendell Phillips for rotten eggs, derisive scorn, and hisses?
Pushing to the Front
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Who wants to bathe in water that smells like rotten eggs?
Wicked
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The room grew warm, then hot, heavy with the stink of rotten eggs.
The Magician
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The smell was an absorbing stew of Parmesan cheese, methane, and rotten eggs.
The strain
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His nose wrinkles in distaste when he smells the rotten eggs.
World After
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Sulphuretted hydrogen is, as is well known, the gas given off by rotten eggs.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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The air smelled of damp earth and just the faintest hint of rotten eggs.
The Alchemyst
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Rotten eggs through the time
Rotten eggs across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common