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

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Cotton spinners will sometimes use a distaff, sometimes not, depending on how their cotton was prepared. Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. b) They are presented or perceived as a complete description of teaching… when, in reality, we know there are other things to think about too. If both sides of the egg-sucking scenario do their bit, we have harmony and can get on with discussing those ideas.

Sucking an egg from a shell that has a single hole in it is not possible if done with the lips/mouth (and weasels don't have lips. Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location). Which means that logistics processes and strategies need to be agile enough to respond to this challenging environment. I still quote Rosenshine’s work, and subsequent replications of his work in more current terms – and I also quote your book, Tom!At some point, however, the logical metaphor lost favor, and the phrase mutated: instead of teaching your grandma something she knows better than you because she's been doing it since she was three years old, the phrase became about things that anyone with a modicum of intelligence can figure out how to do, if only they could come up with a reason to do them in the first place. 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. 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. 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. And above all, emphasise that we’re largely improving what we do already rather than necessarily doing new things.

Even if people are new to hearing about his work, the ideas Rosenshine describes are absolutely not new. The Phrase Finder has "Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs" is older than you might think, but without any explanation of the egg sucking part.That isn't to say that removing the contents of an egg without breaking two holes in the shell is impossible.

Evidently, the reason that the Indians "could not suck eggs" wasn't because they didn't know the trick of opening a raw egg at both ends; rather, they "could not" because eating the egg uncooked was abominable to them. 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). 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. 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.And if it qualified as a proverb in 1692, it had evidently been in English folk use appreciably longer than that. The English of which, he told us, was, That a child may sometimes teach his grandmother to suck eggs. Marketing directors and managers may need to listen a lot more to them too—and start having a whale of a time themselves. We’re non-experts (to put it mildly) marketing to experts, and that can make us very nervous indeed.