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to teach your grandmother to suck eggs

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  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs — 1. To presume to teach someone older and wiser than oneself 2. To teach someone something that he or she knows already • • • Main Entry: ↑egg * * * teach your grandmother to suck eggs british informal phrase to tell someone how to do something… …   Useful english dictionary

  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs — When people say don t teach your grandmother to suck eggs , they mean that people shouldn t try to teach someone who has experience or is an expert in that area …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs — teach (your) grandmother to suck eggs British & Australian to give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you. You re teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I ve been playing this game since before you were …   New idioms dictionary

  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs —    When people say don t teach your grandmother to suck eggs , they mean that people shouldn t try to teach someone who has experience or is an expert in that area.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs — A caution against offering advice to someone wiser and more experienced than oneself. The metaphorical phrase to teach one’s grandmother (to suck eggs) is also found. 1707 J. STEVENS tr. Quevedo’s Comical Works IV. 403 You would have me teach my… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs — British informal to tell someone how to do something when they can already easily do it …   English dictionary

  • teach grandmother to suck eggs — teach (your) grandmother to suck eggs British & Australian to give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you. You re teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I ve been playing this game since before you were …   New idioms dictionary

  • don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs — do not tell me what I know, do not say what is obvious    You, a history major, telling me, a war veteran, about war? Don t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs! …   English idioms

  • teach — W2S1 [ti:tʃ] v past tense and past participle taught [to:t US to:t] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(school/college etc)¦ 2¦(show somebody how)¦ 3¦(change somebody s ideas)¦ 4¦(experience shows something)¦ 5 that ll teach you (to do something) 6 teach somebody a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • teach — /ti:tS/ past tense and past participle taught verb 1 SCHOOL/COLLEGE ETC (I, T) to give lessons in a school, college, or university: Guy s been teaching in France for 3 years now. | teach English/mathematics/history etc: Janet teaches science at a …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • teach */*/*/ — UK [tiːtʃ] / US [tɪtʃ] verb Word forms teach : present tense I/you/we/they teach he/she/it teaches present participle teaching past tense taught UK [tɔːt] / US [tɔt] past participle taught 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to help students to learn …   English dictionary

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