OFF: Slang question

[Kevin Perry]

Don't know if it's purely UK but it means teaching someone to do something
that they've known how to do for ages.

Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
http://freespace.virgin.net/kevin.perry/

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous;
and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its
duties."

----- Original Message -----
From: Vince LeGrand <vince-l at EROLS.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:34 PM
Subject: OFF: Slang question


> I know this is off-topic, but in the past this list has had threads on
> various slang expressions.  A co-worker received a note from a someone in
> the UK which included the following sentences:
>
> >A couple of documents I mentioned during our telephone conversation.
> >Apologies if you already have them and I'm teaching me grandmother to
suck
> >eggs.
> >
> My co-worker (and I) aren't familiar with the phrase "teaching me
> grandmother to suck eggs."  Is this a UK expression?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.