NEST EGG • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Nest egg

... would have no honeymoon trip; I wanted the money instead. John kissed each of my palms before he put the money into them. My fingers closed greedily over the bills; it was the nest egg, the beginning. ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... been—undermined that thin and insecure protection. Though she was now earning as much as thirty dollars a week, an illness of a year ago, when she had been obliged to stop work for several months, had exhausted the remains of the modest nest egg with which she had started; and to lose her place, she knew, would mean either starvation or beggary. There was no one, with the exception of Cousin Jimmy, of whom she could beg, and to beg of him would be a tacit confession that she had failed as a breadwinner. In Mrs. Carr's ...

— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow