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Sex God
Quote by PoloLady
One phrase I was interested to find the origin of, but to no avail - "teaching granny to suck eggs"
Why granny?
Why eggs?
Why sucking?
If anyone knows the origin of that one, please do share it.
Judging by the age of some mothers these it may be connected with in vitro fertilisation.
Apart from that could it not just be literal? Easy to suck an egg and granny's been around long enough to have sucked one or two. Probably originates from before the time when Edwina Currie was minister for Agriculture though. You can tell I'm guessing here can't you?
OK I'll flick off!
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TEACHING ONE’S GRANDMOTHER TO SUCK EGGS
From Jonathan Downes: “I wonder if you would care to explain a phrase in wide use but rather odd in its direct meaning: teaching your grandmother to suck eggs? (This has been in use by my parents, both in their 70s).”
It does look odd, but its meaning is clear enough: don’t give needless assistance or presume to offer advice to an expert. As that prolific author, Anon, once wrote:
Teach not thy parent’s mother to extract
The embryo juices of the bird by suction.
The good old lady can that feat enact,
Quite irrespective of your kind instruction.
From Jonathan Downes: “I wonder if you would care to explain a phrase in wide use but rather odd in its direct meaning: teaching your grandmother to suck eggs? (This has been in use by my parents, both in their 70s).”
It does look odd, but its meaning is clear enough: don’t give needless assistance or presume to offer advice to an expert. As that prolific author, Anon, once wrote:
Teach not thy parent’s mother to extract
The embryo juices of the bird by suction.
The good old lady can that feat enact,
Quite irrespective of your kind instruction.
From :
I think the presumption is that your grandmother has no teeth and therefore prefers raw eggs to the hard wholemeal-mixed-with-barley bread that was the staple diet of British peasants in the 18th/19th centuries. (The dental health of the 18th-19th-early 20th century British was truly terrible; it was taken for granted that old people were toothless.
Richard
I think the presumption is that your grandmother has no teeth and therefore prefers raw eggs to the hard wholemeal-mixed-with-barley bread that was the staple diet of British peasants in the 18th/19th centuries. (The dental health of the 18th-19th-early 20th century British was truly terrible; it was taken for granted that old people were toothless.
Richard
What about "mad as a bucket of frogs?"
or "sandwich short of a picnic?"
or "away an boil yer heid?"
I think some sayings have direct meanings and don't have any sort of history. I am pretty sure these come under that category.
Here's another.
'Mortgage.'
It comes from the French meaning grip of death. (Mort-gage.)
Ever get the feeling you're being had?
Richard
This was the best place I could find to put this......
Chatting to my bestest buddy on the phone earlier- who is about to finish a nauticalish type science degree, she commented that she had managed to get the term "glory holes" into her dissertation :shock: I said "aha, I take it glory holes is one of those nautical terms thats been taken to mean something else then?." And she then explained what a vanilla glory hole was.
Later in our chat, she was referring to a sunken vessel which hadn't been found, when she came out with this absolute gem-
"It might never be seen again- not if it's been dumped on by the spoils of a glory hole"
:sticky:
I damn near wet meself!
:rotflmao:
Chatting to my bestest buddy on the phone earlier- who is about to finish a nauticalish type science degree, she commented that she had managed to get the term "glory holes" into her dissertation :shock: I said "aha, I take it glory holes is one of those nautical terms thats been taken to mean something else then?." And she then explained what a vanilla glory hole was.
Later in our chat, she was referring to a sunken vessel which hadn't been found, when she came out with this absolute gem-
"It might never be seen again- not if it's been dumped on by the spoils of a glory hole"
:sticky:
I damn near wet meself!
:rotflmao: 
Sex God
Quote by LondonPlaything
Stack me vitals!
lp
I've always known it as "Stap me vitals"..
I'm looking it up now. 
Sex God
Someone on a listserve forum can't decide between two possible original meanings:
Lovely!
I still don't quite know if it means 'steep (soak in brine or some other
preserving liquid) my vitals (internal organs)' or 'stop my victuals (i.e.
deprive me of food)'.
Lovely!
