You can boil me, dye me in pastel shades, or hide me in the backyard grass, yet you can also use my name as an action when you urge someone to take a bold dare. What am I?
An egg
An egg is a central Easter symbol, and the idiom 'to egg someone on' means to encourage or urge someone forward.
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