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Meanings of suck eggs in English

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Usage of suck eggs in English
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If it does, you can teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
The Getting of Wisdom
2
That Shepler's old enough to suck eggs and hide the shells.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
3
It's a backhanded way of telling the sport's organizers to go suck eggs.
Wired
4
The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1
5
Why you may as well wonder that weasels do not suck eggs in swans' nests.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
6
That's it, Mehitabel; teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
The Puritans
7
I dare you to knock it off-andanybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
8
You don't go teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.
Shadow prowler
9
Grandma doesn't like being taught how to suck eggs.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
10
Trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs, eh?
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
11
But talk about teaching granny to suck eggs.
The Irish Times
12
Besides, she considers herself his grandmother, and doesn't require him to teach her to suck eggs.
The Rosary
13
Will you teach your grandmother to suck eggs?
Caesar Dies
14
Don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs.
Torch of Freedom
15
The girls in your family suck eggs-theeggs of the lesser mealworm beetle, to be precise.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
16
Teaching Germans how to remember their past is, at first glance, like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.
The Irish Times
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