Don't give advice to someone that knows more than you know about a subject. Typically, someone older and/or wiser. Sucking eggs was an old-time method (known by grandmothers) used to empty an eggshell so it could be decorated. It consisted of punching a small hole in each end and sucking out the contents.
The expression is: Do not teach your grandmother to suck eggs. It means Do not presume to instruct an adept. In the days before toothpaste, flossing and dentures were common, many elders had no teeth. Toothless grannies all knew perfectly well how to suck an egg for nourishment.
To tread lightly on a subject
It is an old British and Australian saying.
"Sucking" an egg means to make two holes in the shell and suck the raw egg out through one of them (the other one is for ventilation).There is another phrase, "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs," which means "Don't try to show off what you think you know to someone who actually has more wisdom."Here are some more contributions from our WikiReaders:To suck eggs is like to do something really simple. For example sucking eggs. Which is not common any more but must have been when this expression was created. Today it would be like teaching your grandson how to send a SMS or Text Message. The idea is that the person, in this case the Grand mother, would already know how to do it.
This is not an idiom. It means just what it looks like. Something tastes like rotten eggs taste. This would be a really bad taste, too!
The idiom is "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs." It already is a sentence. The meaning is that your elders have already learned anything you have, so don't think you're smarter than they are. You don't need another sentence except the one above.
It means don't assume that you are smarter than someone older than you - they have experience and wisdom that you do not have at your age.
There isn't an idiom called "eggs basket." Perhaps you are thinking of the old proverb that says "don't keep your eggs in one basket."
The expression is: Do not teach your grandmother to suck eggs. It means Do not presume to instruct an adept. In the days before toothpaste, flossing and dentures were common, many elders had no teeth. Toothless grannies all knew perfectly well how to suck an egg for nourishment.
To tread lightly on a subject
It is an old British and Australian saying.
"Sucking" an egg means to make two holes in the shell and suck the raw egg out through one of them (the other one is for ventilation).There is another phrase, "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs," which means "Don't try to show off what you think you know to someone who actually has more wisdom."Here are some more contributions from our WikiReaders:To suck eggs is like to do something really simple. For example sucking eggs. Which is not common any more but must have been when this expression was created. Today it would be like teaching your grandson how to send a SMS or Text Message. The idea is that the person, in this case the Grand mother, would already know how to do it.
hippos dont have eggs
Goats Dont have eggs
You dont
I dont know what do fresh eggs like???
Eggs!