Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs

Don’t offer advice to those who are more experienced than you are. The saying is often used in the form of a retort.

‘Be careful how you use that chisel. It’s very sharp and may slip.’

‘You go and teach your grandmother to suck eggs.’

An Albanian proverb on the same subject goes: ‘Don’t teach the lands to your father.’

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