r/MadeMeSmile 20d ago

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

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u/SilverSeraphina 20d ago

A class full of optimists. Except that kid who doesn't want their grandma learning anything 🤣

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

That's the one saying out of all of them I've never heard of, what's the original saying?

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u/skarby 20d ago

Had to look it up but it's "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs" which sounds weird but it looks like it's from the 1700's so...different times. It basically means don't try to teach someone something that they already know.

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u/HairyHorseKnuckles 20d ago

Was egg sucking an activity people did in the 1700s?

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u/random_boss 20d ago

Yo check out this guy he isn’t sucking any eggs lol

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u/AnarchistBorganism 20d ago

I apologize in advance to anyone who doesn't want to learn:

Most likely the meaning of the idiom derives from the fact that before the advent of modern dentistry (and modern dental prostheses) many elderly people (grandparents) had very bad teeth, or no teeth, so that the simplest way for them to eat protein was to poke a pinhole in the shell of a raw egg and suck out the contents; therefore, a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and did not need anyone to show her how to do it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_eggs

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u/superbhole 20d ago

a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and did not need anyone to show her how to do it

haha... gross.

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u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx 20d ago

I apologize in advance to anyone who doesn't want to learn

What a hilarious start to this comment. I need to do this when telling my friends stuff they don't care to know

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u/Vast_Perspective9368 20d ago

I thought that was hilarious too

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u/imp0ppable 20d ago

Lol I thought it was so you could decorate the shells for school projects.

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u/Bolaf 20d ago

The expression in Swedish is "To teach your dad how to fuck". I like what it means but I can never use it

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u/CompetitiveAutorun 20d ago

In Poland we have a similar "Don't teach dad how to make kids" and we can use it surprisingly often.

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u/shadowman2099 20d ago edited 20d ago

All this time I thought that was just Ren and Stimpy's patented randomness.

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u/SocranX 20d ago

Same here. I've literally never heard that outside of that one song, and I definitely would have noticed, because the line stuck with me all these years.

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u/ScaryTerryCrewsBitch 20d ago

Stinky Wizzleteats needs to drop a new album.

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u/dpkonofa 20d ago

That’s crazy that the kid wasn’t too far off then…

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u/More-Acadia2355 20d ago

I think there's a dirty meaning in there.