What is the meaning of [Don’t try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs]

Don’t offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.

These days this proverbial saying has little impact as few people have any direct experience of sucking eggs – grandmothers included. It is quite an old phrase and is included in John Stevens’ translation of Quevedo’s Comical Works, 1707:

“You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs.”