You can't make an omelette without breaking eg

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

something that you say which means it is difficult to achieve something important without causing any unpleasant effects Twenty jobs will have to be cut if the company's going to be made more efficient. But you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

See also: breaking, egg, make, omelette, without

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mikkel	MEEK-kel (Danish, Norwegian), MEEG-gel (Danish)	Danish, Norwegian
Osvaldo	-	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Dorotea	do-ro-TE-ah (Italian, Spanish), DO-ro-te-ah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian
Rowland	RO-lənd	English
Calogero	kah-lo-JE-ro	Italian
Omar (1)	-	Arabic, English