go suck on an egg

Hi,

"go suck on an egg" is an expression i hear now and then. Usually it is a ridiculous joke, but I am curious about what it actually means and/or where it came from.
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 '**** off'.

I don't know where it com

DON'T TEACH YOUR GRANDMOTHER TO SUCK EGGS:

Sucking eggs was an old English (and possibly elsewhere) tradition going back centuries, and normally done at Easter. An egg would be pierced with small holes at either end, and the contents sucked out. The combined white/yolk (plus some inevitable saliva!) would then be used in cake making and other foods, whereas the intact eggshell co

...The combined white/yolk (plus some inevitable saliva!) would then be used in cake making...The lack of teeth probably helped...

Mmm. So where can I get hold of some of these cakes, LL?

MrP

I don't know where the phrase comes from.

You blow eggs you don't suck them (where's Talullah now eh?).

You make a hole at each end and blow hard in one and plop, eventually the egg comes out the other hole. I don't think Grandma saliva features in any cake recipes!

Used for a situation where you're between a rock and a hard place, ie where you have no option.

Origin: Eggs in English farms were traditionally eaten hard boiled. This expression was used to denote times where food or meat was scarce and there was no soup to go around; hence "suck eggs".

sounds unlikely to me.

Traditionally eaten hard-boiled? Isn't the internet a great place for people spouting absolute rubbish?

Fraid not. You blow eggs, not suck them, and blowing eggs is pretty easy, you put a hole in each end and, um, blow. And people still do it, my family do it every easter.

0Eggs refers to testicles.0-

0 Not in common parlance, and not noticeably in classical literature to my recollection. Have you got any sources for that? '*****' is the traditional euphemism for testicles. 0-