have left with egg on over your face

Meaning

1. have / be left with egg on / all over your face

   to be made to look stupid

   They were left with egg on their faces when only ten people showed up.

From the same entry

• a good egg
• put all your eggs in one basket
• a chicken - and - egg situation, problem
• the curate's egg
• kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
• sure as eggs is eggs
• teach your grandmother to suck eggs
• egg on