pearls before swine
Offering elegance unappreciated
Something valuable offered to those who cannot appreciate it.
The phrase comes from a biblical warning against giving what is precious to those who will trample it.
To cast pearls before swine is to waste refinement, wisdom, or beauty on an unreceptive audience: Explaining poetry to him is pearls before swine.
- Sermon on the MountGospel hillside teaching
- futilityLack of purpose
- lost causeEndeavor certain to fail
- unappreciatedNot given due recognition
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
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- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- Scripture PhrasesJohn 3:16, Lord's Prayer, Our Father, Ten Commandments, Beatitudes
- wisdom sayingsproverbs, sayings, adages, maxims, aphorisms