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Can someone tell me what this expression means?
"on the eye"
It accounts for the scene I witnessed in the barracks: after a particularly tasteless dinner, which was left uneaten by most of the soldiers, the unfortunate soldier, lying on his bed, the victim of a practical joke, loudly complained that he was still very hungry and wouldn’t mind a simple meal, perhaps a pair of eggs on the eye
I found it in one of Slavoj Žižek's books and I would like to understand it.
I suspect the phrase is "eggs on the eye"
This is a translation of a Serbo-Croat phrase meaning fried eggs (not scrambled, but over easy in American)
But it is also a crude pun: like Spanish, Serbo-Croat uses "eggs" as a term for testicles. So in "The Seven Veils of Fantasy" in Slavoj Zizek's The Plague of Fantasies, he explains the vulgar joke
How do you make eggs on the eye? By putting the prick on the forehead!
i.e. by drawing a penis on a sleeping person's face
