Re: butterflies

In article <dsfn17d4ct13dqm094o667nopjr3qm72bq@xxxxxxx>, tony_cooper213
@earthlink.net says...
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:08:25 -0400, "Carrie"
<starchild1124@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I wasn't referring to you, Mike. Sorry you took it that way.
I don't understand the grandmothers and egg sucking.

He is saying that he sometimes feels people are telling him things he
already knows.

"Do you teach your grandmother how to suck eggs?" is an expression you
might use to reply to someone who tells you how to do something you
already know how to do.

And it has always struck me as a somewhat strange expression, as I have
blown many an egg at Easter before painting it. But have never sucked an
egg and couldn't imagine why I, or any randomly chosen grandmother,
might want to.

Mike
.

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