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Nest egg   /nɛst ɛg/   Listen
Nest egg

noun
1.
A fund of money put by as a reserve.  Synonym: savings.
2.
Device consisting of an artificial egg left in a nest to induce hens to lay their eggs in it.





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"Nest egg" Quotes from Famous Books



... certificates is to enable persons of limited means to husband small savings as they accrue, and place them where they will draw interest and become the nest egg for future accumulation. The form of certificate seems better adapted for the purpose than the French ventes or the English savings bank system. The objection to a national savings bank is that, in a country so extensive as ours, the agencies would necessarily ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... like Leon? Leave ONE for the nest egg! If he were dying and saw a joke or a trick, he'd stop to play it before he finished, if he possibly could. If he had no time at all, then he'd go with his eyes twinkling over the thoughts of the fun it would have been if he possibly could have managed it. Of course when we saw that one lonely ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... in their unprofitable enterprise, for she had no money to invest. Neither had she any capital of scout experience to draw upon. But one little nest egg she had. She had once made a small deposit in this staunch institution of reciprocal kindness. All by herself, and long before she had known of Pee-wee and the scouts, she had done a ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... you half yet. Bevan insists on our moving at once; he wants me to take a good house, either in Brunswick Place or Montague Square, or one of those roads leading out of it; it is well that we have that nest egg, the five hundred pounds untouched, it will pay for the necessary furniture, and the first ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... confessed confidentially, "when father and mother were married Uncle John gave them a little nest egg. You understand? He had some money, and he gave some of it to them. And then, he was father's only living relative; so they named the first baby 'Gumswith'—so that the family name should not die ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... live here most of the time," grinned Teddy. "They like to have me eat here. I'm a sort of nest egg, you know. It makes the others hungry to see me eat, and they file in in a perfect procession. How's ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington


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