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teach grandma to suck eggs

teach grandma to suck eggs is the alternative form of teach grandma how to suck eggs.

Meaning of teach grandma how to suck eggs

Verb

teach grandma how to suck eggs (third-person singular simple present teaches grandma how to suck eggs, present participle teaching grandma how to suck eggs, simple past and past participle taught grandma how to suck eggs)

  1. (idiomatic) To tell an expert how to do things.
    • Madam, reply’d Joler, you would have me teach my Grandame to ſuck Eggs, or ſet up for a Lent Preacher.[1707, Francisco de Quevedo, translated by John Stevens, “The Dog and the Fever: An Unaccountable Novel: or, A Rapsody”, in The Comical Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo, […], London: […] John...

Verb capitalized: teach Grandma to suck eggs

teach Grandma to suck eggs (third-person singular simple present teaches Grandma to suck eggs, present participle teaching Grandma to suck eggs, simple past and past participle taught Grandma to suck eggs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of teach grandma how to suck eggs.
    • I joined an audience of 500 or so direct marketing evangelists some years ago to hear Bob set out these seven key points. It just didn’t occur to him that he was teaching Grandma to suck eggs because Bob knows the strength of this formula. His formula.1989, John Fraser-Robinson, “AIDA”, in The Secrets of Effective Direct Mail (The John Fraser-Robinson Direct Marketing Series), London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, part 2 (Direct mail: The...
    • There are quite a lot of other useful macros embedded in the header files to cover many different functions, far more than we can list in detail here. However, at the risk of teaching Grandma to suck eggs, here is a neat way to find out where the macros are defined. Once you know where they are...2000, Peter Wright, “Building the User Interface”, in Beginning GTK+/GNOME Programming (Linux Programming Series), Birmingham: Wrox Press, →ISBN, chapter 18 (Application: Image Viewer), “Writing the...

Forms of teach grandma to suck eggs

third-person singular presentteaches grandma to suck eggs
present participleteaching grandma to suck eggs
past participletaught grandma to suck eggs
pasttaught grandma to suck eggs
third-person singular presentteaches Grandma to suck eggs
present participleteaching Grandma to suck eggs
past participletaught Grandma to suck eggs
pasttaught Grandma to suck eggs

Questions about teach grandma to suck eggs

What is teach grandma to suck eggs the alternative form of?
Teach grandma to suck eggs is the alternative form of teach grandma how to suck eggs.
What part of speech is teach grandma to suck eggs?
Teach grandma to suck eggs is a verb.
What is the past tense of teach grandma to suck eggs?
The past tense of teach grandma to suck eggs is taught grandma to suck eggs.

Words near teach grandma to suck eggs in the dictionary

  1. teacart
  2. teacarts
  3. teach
  4. teach away
  5. teach grandma how to suck eggs
  6. teach grandma to suck eggs
  7. teach one's place
  8. teach out
  9. teach school
  10. teach someone a lesson
  11. teach someone who's the boss

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