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

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You see, grandma, we perforate an aperture in the apex, and a corresponding aperture in the base ; and by applying the egg to the lips, and forcibly inhaling the breath, the shell is entirely discharged of its contents.

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.Dating back to the early 13 th century, it is the oldest of the English terms of relationship formed with grand-. Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

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). I can sort of picture the conversation: "Granny, don't forget you need to poke a hole at both ends of the egg. The compulsion to prove that I know what I’m talking about (because I don’t) is going to be pretty irresistible. Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): [2] "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs". 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 means to presume to advise a more experienced person. In Latin they say Sus Minervam, when an unlearned dunce goeth about to teach his better or a more learned man, then doth the Hog teach Pallas ², or as we say in English, the foul Sow teach the fair Lady to spin. I think this is at the root of the various derisive uses of the phrase (the other example being "go suck eggs").

And speaking of concrete, there are some superb examples of cutting straight to the point—in the construction industry. 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. And yet, here was a twitter-grump giving it the full eye-roll emoji with – not like we haven’t been using them for 20 years. As B2B marketers we’re in the business of selling to world-leading egg-suckers—having never once put an egg in our own mouths.Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs". 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 Goose leads out the Gosling to the field; (contrarie to the former, and an argument of a well-proportioned gouernment.

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.I clocked a twitter person recently protesting that, as far as they are concerned, ‘Rosenshine is patronising’. It’s up to us to give our prospects something they’ve never heard before—or never seen in quite the same way. Even if people are new to hearing about his work, the ideas Rosenshine describes are absolutely not new. 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? The saying still survives despite the fine art dying out in our "civilized" and salmonella fearing culture.