Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 120:5

אמר אביי האי מילתא דאמור רבנן אפילו ביעתא בכותחא לא לישרי איניש במקום רביה לא משום דמיחזי כאפקירותא אלא משום דלא מסתייעא מילתא למימרא דהא אנא הוה גמירנא ליה להא דרב ושמואל אפי' הכי לא מסתייעא לי מילתא למימר

Abaye said: That which the rabbis said: Even [a question about the permissibility of eating] an egg with kutah a person should not permit [in an area under the rule] of his Master was not due [because this might] appear as an act of irreverence but rather it is because he would have no help in answering correctly. For I have in fact learned the tradition of Rav and Shmuel and yet I did not get the opportunity of applying it.

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