Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green

Product Information

Teach your Grannum (Grandame) to suck Eggs (A Reproof to those, who think they have more Knowledge than the whole World, and will be ever and anon teaching those who have had more Experience than themselves. c) They appear too obvious to be worth discussing or given any status – like we’re all a bit above describing our craft in functional everyday language.

the skill was to make a hole in either end of the egg, insert a needle to whip around and break the yolk, at which point it could be sucked (or blown) to enjoy, or just to empty it. There seems to be some idea, especially online, that it’s better to criticise than to simply let someone have their say – as in “the squeaky wheel makes the most sound? Teaching grandmother to suck eggs is an English-language saying, meaning that a person is giving advice to someone else about a subject that they already know about (and probably more than the first person).The Scots say: Learn your Goodam to make Milk-Kail (Milk-Pottage) or, Teach your Father to get Bairns (Children). I can sympathise with that feeling but I’d still encourage people to be charitable to those who are simply sharing ideas. I clocked a twitter person recently protesting that, as far as they are concerned, ‘Rosenshine is patronising’. The "shooting" (spraying) beer from a can with more than one hole in it" is not as dramatic as from a can with one hole in it. Teaching grandmother to suck eggs is an English language saying that refers to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar.

And if all feels a bit beneath you, well, in my experience, the more functional and grounded we get, the more progress we make in doing things better. A Reproof to those, who think they have more Knowledge than the whole World, and will be ever and anon teaching those who have had more Experience than themselves.The Goose leads out the Gosling to the field; (contrarie to the former, and an argument of a well-proportioned gouernment. And above all, emphasise that we’re largely improving what we do already rather than necessarily doing new things. And let’s not forget a weird but fabulously useful way to get up-close-and- personal with our audience: hanging out with them online. Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions.

These days this proverbial saying has little impact as few people have any direct experience of sucking eggs - grandmothers included.I still quote Rosenshine’s work, and subsequent replications of his work in more current terms – and I also quote your book, Tom! And speaking of concrete, there are some superb examples of cutting straight to the point—in the construction industry. It’s up to us to give our prospects something they’ve never heard before—or never seen in quite the same way. The Italian phrase cited by this dictionary is properly i paperi voglion menare a bere l’oche and means the goslings want to take the geese to drink.