Did you use to that phrase when you were young to signify a person who was not doing much. We did in Coromandel colony. (At graduate school in Physics, we used another picturesque phrase 'doing diddly squat').
Anyway, the appropriateness of the 'hatching eggs' simile was brought 'home' to me recently as a pigeon has been hatching eggs on our balcony. The process goes:
sit on eggs
continue for most of the day and night
When we first saw an egg we got a little stressed and considered dumping it. Later we moved it to a shoebox next to the pot but the bird seemed to abandon the egg, so we put it back. The bird has built a little nest and laid one more egg after the photos we took.
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