Teaching Your Grany to suck eggs ?

30 Jan 2006

I was in work today when the phrase "TEAHING YOUR GRANNY TO SUCK EGGS" was used and we all thought where the hell does that come from ? I have had a quick look on the net without any success. So God knows what makes me think you lot will know lol

but I thought I would give ita try.
So can anyone help me out with this rolleyes

30 Jan 2006

dnt no, but where did "DON'T RUB UR DAD UP THE WRONG WAY" come from? is there a right ay 2 rub ur dad up? :shock:

30 Jan 2006

Quote by 19manchester
dnt no, but where did "DON'T RUB UR DAD UP THE WRONG WAY" come from? is there a right ay 2 rub ur dad up? :shock:

WTF was that????? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

30 Jan 2006

lol take it uve not seen Dave Spikey live?

30 Jan 2006

:dunno: :dunno:

30 Jan 2006

What about 'GET UP THE APPLES AND PEARS" (stairs)
where did that come from confused

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30 Jan 2006

It's sureal post night here in the cafe it seems confused

30 Jan 2006

Bloody hell, Your all qucik and usless tonight lol

Yeah I agree will the Sgt what the F**k that saying :shock:
To answer his and hers - apples and pears is just staright forward ryhmming slang does come from anything in particular.
Come on folks we can do better than this, someone out there must know the answer

30 Jan 2006

teaching your granny to suck eggs is basically telling someone about their own business :P

30 Jan 2006

Well this is what I found:

DON'T TRY TO TEACH YOUR GRANDMA TO SUCK EGGS - I don't think anyone knows exactly how this phrase got started. On a farm, an egg-sucking dog (a dog that steals eggs and eats them) is bad. And I think that during one discussion of the phrase, it was said that maybe grandma didn't have teeth so she sucked soft boiled eggs. Anyway, here's what Charles Earle Funk says in "Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948). "To teach one's grandmother to suck eggs - To offer needless assistance; to waste one's efforts upon futile matters; especially, to offer advice to an expert. This particular expression is well over two hundred years old; it is just a variation of an older theme that was absurd enough to appeal to the popular fancy. One of the earliest of these is given in Udall's translation of 'Apophthegmes (1542) from the works of Erasmus. It reads: 'A swyne to teach Minerua, was a prouerbe, for which we sai: Englyshe to teach our dame to spyne.'" That last bit was about an expression, don't try to teach a dame to spin.

30 Jan 2006

Quote by 19manchester
dnt no, but where did "DON'T RUB UR DAD UP THE WRONG WAY" come from? is there a right ay 2 rub ur dad up? :shock:

Rub up the wrong way - irritate (person) by tactless handling As a cat arches
its back, normally a sign of roused feelings, if it is stroked against the lie of its fur.

English class is now over for tonight! lol

31 Jan 2006

raw eggs used to be seen as being beneficial to your health (and some people still regard them as one of the best hangover cures). grannies used to pierce the shell and suck the egg out of it, i suppose it saved on the washing up smile

i'm not that old..........surely others remember this confused

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also men taking a raw egg in their beer :?:

31 Jan 2006

Right, whilst we are on the subject, have you heard the expression "Like Piffy on a rock!" ??
If so, where does it come from??? confused

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I know how it is used, but have no idea where it comes from!!! dunno

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31 Jan 2006

Quote by Sgt Bilko
Right, whilst we are on the subject, have you heard the expression "Like Piffy on a rock!" ??
If so, where does it come from??? :? :? :?
I know how it is used, but have no idea where it comes from!!! :dunno: :dunno:

without trying to split hairs................................the phrase i know (and love) is "like piffy on a rock...BUN"
fooked if i know what it means tho....
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31 Jan 2006

My mum used to say to me 'Don't come running to me if you break a leg' lol

31 Jan 2006

Quote by DeeCee
without trying to split hairs................................the phrase i know (and love) is "like piffy on a rock...BUN"

I have heard of that, and seen it on google, but I have always known it to be" Piffy on a rock", as in "I have been stood here like Piffy on a rock".
I think it is a North West Phrase! confused

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31 Jan 2006

"Piffy on a rock/rock bun" is in all the ionline phrase guides as "origin unknown".
What about "it's looking black over Will's mother's". lol

1 Feb 2006

howabout (from as a child), "I'll give you something to cry about!" -usually said when you were in floods of tears!
I'd clearly got sometthing to cry about already!
that, and "You'll feel the back of my hand!", -tecnically correct, but a tad misleading as a description of the full force slap that accompanied it! smackbottom

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