addled egg

Anyone who has ever smelt an addled egg will know just how horrible that would be.

"They're probably hiding under their desks or else wishing they were back in those addled eggs."

"We've addled eggs for five years, we've tried everything.

"As far as F concemed, they all come out of addled eggs.

You've got the brains of an addled egg.'

Then, under the forceful pursuit of the analyst, the tangle quacked once, laid an addled egg, and expired.

Msseff said to Ttomalss, "Superior sir, if all this is necessary for sur- vival, then I am an addled egg."

There was one occasion when the addled eggs came in handy for pelting a kid on a motorbike who'd been riding up and down outside our house all evening and making a terrible noise.

For the sea-fowl that harboured and lived there at the epoch of my visit were then scattered into the uttermost parts of the ocean, and had left no traces of their sojourn besides dropped feathers and addled eggs.

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been - in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away - by the fervour of this reproach. '

Since then the hyena had subsisted on scrapings, the fresh dung of jackal and baboon, a nest of field mice, the long-abandoned and addled egg of an ostrich which had burst in a sulphurous geyser of gas and putrefied liquid when he pawed at it.