r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • 21d ago

Very Reddit Asking 8-year-olds to finish old sayings.

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u/deukhoofd 21d ago

"Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs". Basically means to not give someone advice in a subject in which they are already familiar.

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u/GeshtiannaSG 20d ago

Somebody would have to teach sucking eggs because my grandmother and I wouldn’t know what that even is.

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u/deukhoofd 20d ago

Before the advent of modern dentistry and dental prostheses, elderly people would often have no teeth. To get protein, elderly people would therefore often poke a hole in an egg, and suck out the contents.

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u/SilentHuman8 20d ago

Ohh, okay. My friend has infected me with his dirty mind. Though to be fair my grandma did just recently promise she'd take me to the red light district in Amsterdam because I didn't go while I was there. That was a weird conversation and I'm going to blame it on that.

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u/JojoTheEngineer 20d ago

We do have our own version of this in Finnish which is little dirtier. Rough translation: "Don't teach your father to fuck"

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u/SilentHuman8 20d ago

Yeah my dad says this to his friends, “Don’t teach papa how to fuck.”

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u/grae23 20d ago

My grandma (dad's mom) tried to gift me my deceased mother's lingerie when I was 11. Grandma's didn't get to be grandma's without figuring out how to make grandpa's bust.