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

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

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

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The compulsion to prove that I know what I’m talking about (because I don’t) is going to be pretty irresistible. We’re non-experts (to put it mildly) marketing to experts, and that can make us very nervous indeed. In any case, the Indians don't impute the practice to "old white people" or to "toothless white people" but to "the white people. 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. It’s like some people think by challenging others continually, they will raise their online profile – and maybe they will, just doesn’t seem to me that this is for the “right reasons”?

And if it qualified as a proverb in 1692, it had evidently been in English folk use appreciably longer than that. 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. The short-tailed weasel ( Mustela erminea) will put a small hole into an egg and then lap up the contents as they come oozing out.Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs". 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. 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.

If teachers are skeptical or cynical about being presented with ideas in CPD, it might well be because they’ve been burned too many times with egg-sucking presentations. Sucking an egg from a shell that has a single hole in it is likely to be no more efficient than "shooting" a beer from a can that has only one opening in it. But their awareness of "the manner of the white people" in sucking raw eggs suggests that this practice was fairly widespread among white people (in North America, anyway) at the time. For (fill in the blanks) industry in particular, the transportation of goods needs to run as smoothly as possible. None of the Indians however eat any kind of raw sallads ; they reckon such food is only fit for brutes.

What they don't do is actively suck out the yolks and the whites, like some kind of breakfast food vampire. Teaching ( your) grandmother to suck eggs is an English language saying that refers to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar (and probably more so than the first person). Raw eggs, with or without a little seasoning, used to be a popular food and were regarded as healthy. These days this proverbial saying has little impact as few people have any direct experience of sucking eggs - grandmothers included. 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.

Rosenshine’s principles are, for some teachers, especially in terms of reminding us all about clear communication of new knowledge and strategies. 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? 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). 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.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. In 1707, Francisco de Quevedo coined the expression “Teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs”—a colourful reference to the fact that Spanish grannies who’d lost their teeth were adept at sucking eggy goodness through a pinhole in raw eggs. 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 didn't need anyone to show her how to do it.

It was such a commonplace procedure then that to "teach your grandmother to suck eggs" was like a child trying to teach as new something the grandmother well knew how to do. The phrase to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs was therefore already proverbial in the early 18 th century.And above all, emphasise that we’re largely improving what we do already rather than necessarily doing new things.



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