Teach one's grandmother to suck eggs

Definition

teach /ti:tʃ/ v ( pt, pp taught /tↄ:t/) ၁။ (က) သင္ေပးသည္။ She teaches us Scottish dancing. ❍ He taught me (how) to drive. (ခ) ~ sth (to sb/sth) သင္ေပးသည္။ သင္ျပသည္။ teach French/history/judo ❍ She teaches advanced students English/teaches English to advanced students. (ဂ) ဆရာအလုပ္ျဖင့္ အသက္ေမြးသည္။ She teaches at our local school. ❍ He taught mathematics/woodwork for many years. ၂။ သြန္သင္သည္။ ျပသသည္။ Christ taught forgiveness (ie that we should forgive people who harm us, etc) ❍ He taught that the earth revolves around the sun. ❍ My parents taught me never to tell lies. ၃။ ( infml ) (no passive) သင္ခန္းစာေပးသည္။ So you lost all your money? That'll teach you (to gamble). ❍ It taught him a lesson he never forgot. (used as a threat) I'll teach you to call (ie punish you for calling) me a liar! ❏ teachable adj ၁။ သင္ျပႏိုင္ေသာ၊ သင္ေပးႏိုင္ေသာ (ဘာသာရပ္)။ ၂။ သင္ယူႏိုင္ေသာ၊ သင္ေပး၍ရေသာ(သူ)။ ❏ teacher n ေက်ာင္းဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ။ my English teacher. Compare HEAD n ၁၄ ❏ teaching n ၁။ [U] စာသင္ျပျခင္း။ ေက်ာင္းဆရာအလုပ္။ She wants to go into teaching as a career. ၂။ [U, C often pl ] အဆံုးအမ။ ေဒသနာေတာ္။ the teaching(s) of the Church. ❏ teach one's grandmother to suck eggs [ IDM ] ( infml )ဘုန္းႀကီးစာခ်၊ မိေက်ာင္းမင္းေရခင္းျပ။ ❏ (you can't) teach an old dog new tricks [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေခြးအိုမွလက္ေပးသင္လို႔မရ။ ❏ teach school [ IDM ] ( US ) ေက်ာင္းဆရာလုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. How long have you been teaching here?
2. [teach science/maths/history etc] : I teach English at the local comprehensive.
3. [teach children/teenagers/adults etc] : She teaches children with learning difficulties.
4. [teach something to someone/teach someone something] : John teaches English to adult learners.
5. [teach someone something] : His mother had taught him some words in Spanish.
6. [teach someone (how) to do something] : My uncle is going to teach me to drive this summer.
7. [teach someone something] : The experience taught her the importance of having good friends.
8. [teach someone to do something] : These children have to be taught to share with others.