walking on eggs
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Cackling happily, the hens then went on to such a fabulous overproduction that the whole U.S. was practically walking on eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his return to Italy, Togliatti said of Khrushchev's famed outburst against Stalin: "He was like an elephant walking on eggs."
From Time Magazine Archive
But time after time, the accounts of Watergate events in his book are couched in the vague terms of the diplomat who is walking on eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now get downstairs, every man o' ye, as aisy as if ye were walking on eggs.
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
