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Thread #89170   Message #1680584
Posted By: TheBigPinkLad
27-Feb-06 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: teaching grandmother to suck eggs
Subject: RE: BS: teaching grandmother to suck eggs
From Word Wide Words:

It was first recorded in 1707 in a translation by John Stevens of the collected comedies of the Spanish playwright Quevedo: "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs".

The (much) ruder version of my youth was 'You can't teach your father to fuck'