dramatize vs lay an egg

dramatize

verb
  • to present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner 

  • to adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television 

lay an egg

verb
  • To produce an egg. 

  • To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful. 

How often have the words dramatize and lay an egg occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )