Got eggs?

Got eggs?

I recently came across a hilarious false friend in the discussion forum of a newspaper website. A German native speaker who seemed to be very keen on using English expressions accidentally translated the colloquial German expression “Eier haben” (Mut haben, to have courage) as “to have eggs” by writing

Der Mann hat eggs.

The correct English word is of course “balls”, see here.

Martin

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