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Sure he does but it's weird to use this homoerotic image as something bad. This is me being a bit annoying, but it irks me since I've heard the phrase for the first time
That’s assuming you know that Germans use eggs to mean testicles. I only learned this trying to joke with a German colleague that the red headed guy in our office was ‘ingver-klerten’ Without realising that they don’t use ginger to mean a colour, or nuts to mean balls/testicles. In English ‘licking eggs’ is just a slow way to have breakfast.
I am German and it's understood by everyone to mean "Merz licks balls".
Yeah I got it too, but to only native English speakers, licks eggs is mostly only literal.
I still like ingverklerten as an idea though, even if it is wrong. Like the other one we tried, ‘glockenende’ to mean ‘bellend’