English Explanatory Dictionary

put an egg in one's shoe and beat it

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To go away; get lost; scram.

Word forms

put an egg in one's shoe and beat it puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it putting an egg in one's shoe and beating it put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it

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.

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