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

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I still quote Rosenshine’s work, and subsequent replications of his work in more current terms – and I also quote your book, Tom! We need to draw a line in the sand between what prospects already know (so we stop talking already) and what they desperately need to know (so we can be truly helpful). The Phrase Finder has "Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs" is older than you might think, but without any explanation of the egg sucking part. The more I thought about it the more I wondered why anyone would suck in raw egg when the same result could be achieved by blowing it out.

But, I would also hope that experience brings with it the maturity and capacity to allow for some enthusiasm from others. It's not always intuitive that an air in-flow hole is helpful in extracting contents from a sealed container (e. 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.Said when subiects gouerne their Princes, children their parents, meane men the Magistrates, and seruants or schollers their maisters; and is a note as well of weakenesse in the Geese, as of sawcinesse in the Goslings. Dating back to the early 13 th century, it is the oldest of the English terms of relationship formed with grand-. If both sides of the egg-sucking scenario do their bit, we have harmony and can get on with discussing those ideas. Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): [2] "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs".

In any case, the Indians don't impute the practice to "old white people" or to "toothless white people" but to "the white people. 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.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?

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. That isn't to say that removing the contents of an egg without breaking two holes in the shell is impossible. But give our tribe a new bit of software to evangelise…and excruciating introductory sentences (see above), awash in industry truisms, are a definite possibility. Even if people are new to hearing about his work, the ideas Rosenshine describes are absolutely not new.The phrase to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs was therefore already proverbial in the early 18 th century. For (fill in the blanks) industry in particular, the transportation of goods needs to run as smoothly as possible. She knows it's wrong, we know it's wrong, ( because we know the original phrases they refer to) and that's why it should be left like that. Being overlooked can be distressing but it is not the fault of the ideas – talk to the people running these things and ask or offer to take the lead on a future occasion. 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.

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 compulsion to prove that I know what I’m talking about (because I don’t) is going to be pretty irresistible. And above all, emphasise that we’re largely improving what we do already rather than necessarily doing new things. 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.Which means that logistics processes and strategies need to be agile enough to respond to this challenging environment. Although not terribly complicated the idea being that trying to instruct your grandmother how to do this when she already knew (likely better than you) was rather futile.