Why Do We Say “Egg Someone On”?

In reality, it has absolutely nothing to do with the breakfast food.

The expression “egg someone on” is one of those curious phrases in English that sounds as though it must have something to do with eggs, chickens, or perhaps even throwing eggs at people. In reality, it has absolutely nothing to do with the breakfast food.

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Piping Hot

Piping hot caffeinated beverage – Adam the Woo

The phrase “piping hot” is a vivid English idiom used to describe something that is extremely hot, most commonly food or drink, and by extension anything that is fresh, immediate, or newly arrived. Its power lies in its sensory immediacy, evoking not just temperature but motion, sound, and urgency, as if heat itself were actively traveling outward.

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