teach grandma how to suck eggs

Meaning: (idiomatic,chiefly in the negative)To tell anexperthow to do things.[1707,Francisco de Quevedo, translated byJohn Stevens, “The Dog and the Fever: An Unaccountable Novel: or, A Rapsody”, inThe Comical Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo,[…], London:[…]John Morphew[…],→OCLC,page403:Madam, reply’dJoler, you would have meteach my Grandame to ſuck Eggs, or ſet up for aLentPreacher.]

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