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In this special edition of On the Town, Yang Li and Alice do a traditional Easter activity - they go on an Easter Egg hunt.

But this Easter egg hunt is a little different from normal. Famous artists and designers have decorated 200 eggs which were originally hidden all over London. Decorating eggs is another Easter tradition.

Tourists and Londoners had to find all the eggs in order to win a special prize.

Now all the eggs have been brought together in Covent Garden and they will be auctioned¹ to raise money for charity.

Yang Li asks some visitors how much they would pay for one of the eggs... and she learns some 'eggcellent' phrases. Do you know what these mean?

To have egg on one's face

Walking on eggshells

A chicken and egg situation

1 auctioned   

v.拍卖( auction的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• It was sad to see all grandmother's lovely things being auctioned off. 眼看着祖母那些可爱的东西全都被拍卖掉，心里真不好受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder. 电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。 来自《简明英汉词典》