"Dave Matthews" <dma### [at] nospamnet> wrote in message
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> Tom Melly wrote:
> >  Probably teaching
> > grandmother to suck eggs here,
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> Well, that's a new one for me.  I haven't the faintest idea where it
> might come from, but I like it, and must find a way to use it.

There's a reference to it in the Hobbit (Gollum solves one of the riddles in the
dark when he remembers teaching his grandmother, his grandmother!, to suck
eggs). hmm... (googles)... 1707 is the first known reference.

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