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idiomomelette/omeletNoteThe spelling omelette is used in both British and American English. It is sometimes spelt omelet in American English.you can't make an omelette/omelet without breaking eggsused in order to say that you cannot achieve anything without causing some problems :I believe that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, and so you can't hold any public office without making some people angry with you.Duranty believed in Stalin as a communist leader, and said of the famine in the Ukraine, "You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs."
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