TO SEE ONE’S GRANDMOTHER, verb. phr. (common).—To have a nightmare.
TO SEE (or HAVE) ONE’S GRANDMOTHER (or LITTLE FRIEND, or AUNTIE) WITH ONE. verb. phr. (common).—To have the menstrual discharge. See FLAG.
TO SHOOT ONE’S GRANDMOTHER, verb. phr. (common).—To be mistaken; to have found a mare’s nest; to be disappointed. Commonly ‘You’ve shot your grannie.’
TO TEACH ONE’S GRANDMOTHER (or GRANNIE) HOW TO SUCK EGGS, verb. phr. (common).—To instruct an expert in his own particular line of business; to talk old to one’s seniors.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1892. Globe, 27 Jan., p. 1, c. 5. Evidently he did not consider, as Englishmen seem to do, that GRANDMOTHERS possess no more knowledge than is required to efficiently SUCK EGGS.
1892. HUME NISBET, The Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 210. ‘Confound you stupid, what do you take me for, that you try TO TEACH YOUR GRANDMOTHER TO SUCK EGGS.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 77. She’s a TEACHING ’ER GRANDMOTHER, she is, although she’s a littery swell.
MY GRANDMOTHER’S REVIEW, subs. phr. (obsolete).—The British Review. [The nickname was Lord Byron’s.]
