A: Did you enjoy the party yesterday?

B: Well, I saw Samantha and made some chit chat with her. I thought she was pregnant, so I asked her when her baby was due.

A: And?

B: And she told me she wasn’t pregnant. She just gained some weight. I don’t know why I always have egg on my face!

Note: This idiom means “to feel embarrassed; to have made a fool of oneself.” It was first recorded in use in the 1940s. According to one theory, when a performer was strongly disliked in the theater, the rowdy audience would announce their discontent by pelting the performer with things, sometimes raw eggs, so that for a performer, having “egg on the face” was not only embarrassing in itself, but was also embarrassing because it was a sign of their failure in entertaining the audience.