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Teach your grandmother to suck eggs If you are teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, you are telling someone (not necessarily your grandmother!) how to do something that they already know more about than you do. “That’s right. If you measure from that corner to this corner, then that corner to that corner, you can work out how much wallpaper we need.”“Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs! I’ve been doing this job for years!”

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Metaphor	Teach your grandmother to suck eggs
Question Meaning	What do you mean?
Meaning	If you are teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, you are telling someone (not necessarily your grandmother!) how to do something that they already know more about than you do.
Question Example	Example
Example	“That’s right. If you measure from that corner to this corner, then that corner to that corner, you can work out how much wallpaper we need.” “Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs! I’ve been doing this job for years!”

Grandmother Suck Eggs Teach Corner Teaching Telling Necessarily