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Not quite the same but there's "A pig teaching Minerva" https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/08/11/a-pig-teaches-minerva/#:~:text=The%20saddest%20adage%20among%2

Not quite the same but there's "A pig teaching Minerva" https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/08/11/a-pig-teaches-minerva/#:~:text=The%20saddest%20adage%20among%20Latin,they%20should%20rather%20be%20taught https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/08/11/a-pig-teaches-mine... Similarly giving redundant advice but with the added connotation of the advisor being less knowledgable on the matter.

PhasmaFelis 3y ago
Interesting! A more direct English equivalent of that would be "teach your grandmother to suck eggs," which isn't used much these days. That's probably a good thing. I have no idea why grandmothers are supposed to be especially good at sucking eggs.