A person who followed Wikipedia's method and poked a single pinhole into an egg would probably find the subsequent sucking operation far less satisfactory than anticipated. I have often jested with them for pressing me to eat eggs, that were boiled so much as to be blue, and told them that my teeth were too bad to chew bullets. It's not always intuitive that an air in-flow hole is helpful in extracting contents from a sealed container (e.

Of course no one element in Rosenshine’s is new; what is new is the fact that he had the temerity to curate the principles into one place. The phrase to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs was therefore already proverbial in the early 18 th century. And speaking of concrete, there are some superb examples of cutting straight to the point—in the construction industry.As for the Wikipedia article's surmise that sucking raw eggs was a practice limited to the old and toothless, that notion seems contrary to the historical record, too. Most likely the meaning of the idiom derives from the fact that before the advent of modern dentistry (and modern dental prostheses) many elderly people (grandparents) had very bad teeth, or no teeth, so that the simplest way for them to eat protein was to poke a pinhole in the shell of a raw egg and suck out the contents; therefore, a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and did not need anyone to show her how to do it. Many years ago people would suck out the egg contents by piercing the egg at both ends and then sucking on one of the ends. If both sides of the egg-sucking scenario do their bit, we have harmony and can get on with discussing those ideas. Isn’t there a difference between teaching egg-sucking and careful signposting that lets our audience know they’re in the right place?

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. The Scots say : Learn your Goodam to make Milk-Kail (Milk-Pottage) or, Teach your Father to get Bairns (Children) Lat. 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. 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. To grope a fowl means to use the fingers to measure the distance between its pelvic bones: if these are close together, it is not laying and can be consigned to the pot.Which means that logistics processes and strategies need to be agile enough to respond to this challenging environment. This dictionary also mentions the Latin phrase sus Minervam (docet), which means a sow, or a swine, teaches Minerva (Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom). The saying still survives despite the fine art dying out in our "civilized" and salmonella fearing culture. When translating the euqivalent Russian idiom не учи ученого from Russian to Armenian via google translate, it gets first translated in to the English "teaching grandma to suck eggs" and then verbatim to Armenian.

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). All of which means that—drum roll—there’ll be times when we need to subvert the usual channels of communication. This proverb was used in Latin literature to condemn the presumption of stupid and ignorant people who would undertake to instruct those from whom they themselves should take instruction. I’ve seen a couple of people who’ve felt somewhat sidelined when newer, younger teachers were invited to present ideas instead of them.But, I would also hope that experience brings with it the maturity and capacity to allow for some enthusiasm from others.