Meaning go suck an egg
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Does this have any definate meaning. I had a grandmother who could occasionally be persuaded to suck an egg, to the horror and delight of her pleading grandchildren. The contents of a raw egg can be removed by carefully breaking a small hole in each end, then blowing through the top one. I have no idea if this is related to either phrase, but sucking eggs in order to decorate the nearly-intact empty shells does sound like a sort of grandmotherly craft. Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog.


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It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. An few Ngram searches shows that "suck an egg" is only really used with the words "go" and "an" but I was not able to find any reference to the origin of the phrase. An existing question on ELU asks about the origin of "teaching grandma to suck eggs" but none of the answers directly discuss this usage of "suck eggs". When did this phrase become a common statement meaning "go away"?



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Go Suck On An Egg? Hi, "go suck on an egg" is an expression i hear now and then. It means 'I want you to go away and do something stupid'. I defy you. It's a less profane way of telling you to 'Fuck off'.





Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs is an English language saying that refers to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar and probably more so than the first person. The origins of the phrase are not clear. The OED and others suggest that it comes from a translation in , by J. I remember my old schoolmaster, who was a prodigious great scholar, used often to say, Polly matete cry town is my daskalon.


How about 20 or 30 strokes in a row?
Some of the stuff she listens to reminds me of John Wick action scenes or something.