“Go to work on an egg.”

—  Fay Weldon

Advertising slogan originated by the Mather &amp; Crowther agency for the British Egg Marketing Board, and used from 1957. http://www.gotoworkonanegg.com/ <br class="br">Fay Weldon wrote to Nigel Rees in 1981: &quot;I was certainly in charge of copy [at Mather &amp; Crowther] at the time…Who invented it, it would be hard to say. It is perfectly possible, indeed probable, that I put those six particular words together in that particular order but I would not swear to it.&quot; (The &quot;Quote…Unquote&quot; Newsletter, July 1992, p. 2).

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