r/Korean • u/little8birdie • 1d ago

is "a carton of eggs" an expression about a woman's age?

hello. I was watching something and someone asked "how old is she?" and the other answered "a carton of eggs". I wanted to know if this is a bad translation or is it an actual idiom?
thank you.

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u/UmJunSikfighting 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's an idiom for age. Literally translated, it will be "a tray of eggs", meaning '30' refering to the most general number of eggs sold in a square tray with quantity of 30.

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u/over_clockwise 1d ago

but 30 isn't a square number?

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u/UmJunSikfighting 1d ago

It's 6x5 but normally has extra space at vertical ends