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

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So why don’t we make up our minds—once and for all—to stop teaching grandmas how to suck eggs and start telling them the good news about dental implants instead?

The phrase to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs was therefore already proverbial in the early 18 th century. I can sort of picture the conversation: "Granny, don't forget you need to poke a hole at both ends of the egg.This book by Jonathan Swift is a satire on the use of clichés: its purported author, Simon Wagstaff, “ can faithfully assure the Reader, that there is not one single witty Phrase in this whole Collection, which hath not received the Stamp and Approbation of at least one hundred Years. 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. 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 a friend who does a lot of spinning, but it's almost all wool, and she doesn't so much as own a distaff. The Scots say : Learn your Goodam to make Milk-Kail (Milk-Pottage) or, Teach your Father to get Bairns (Children) Lat.

I can sympathise with that feeling but I’d still encourage people to be charitable to those who are simply sharing ideas. As B2B marketers we’re in the business of selling to world-leading egg-suckers—having never once put an egg in our own mouths.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. A line that goes something like: This marketing is for X [name your experts] who already know ABC [industry fundamentals]. 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.

Being overlooked can be distressing but it is not the fault of the ideas – talk to the people running these things and ask or offer to take the lead on a future occasion. 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”?It's not always intuitive that an air in-flow hole is helpful in extracting contents from a sealed container (e.

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