To offer something valuable or good to someone who does not know its value:
I’m afraid you’re casting pearls before swine with your good advice – he won’t listen.
Cambridge Dictionary
Cast pearls before swine
Do something or offer something to someone who can’t appreciate it.
Giving a beautiful birthday card to the blind child is like casting pearls before swine.
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– and I fear I may be casting pearls before swine once again.
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I suppose he could have said: ‘I’m fed up with casting pearls before swine’.
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No less a master of the simile than Wittgenstein complains that relating his ideas is like “casting pearls before swine”.
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Glenn Hoddle might in future heed the advice of another beleaguered spiritual heretic who cautioned against casting pearls before swine.
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The Japanese idiom neko ni koban (猫に小判, literally, “gold coins for cats”) is an equivalent for casting pearls before swine.
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exclusivity goes back hundreds of years: Hamlet declared that a play “pleased not the million – it was caviare to the general”, the gastronomic equivalent of casting
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It appears Mr Barrett may well have been casting pearls before swine.
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In Matthew 7:6, Jesus warns his followers not to cast pearls before swine.
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Why should you cast your pearls before swine?
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They had cast their pearl before swine, and they damn near lost the farm doing it.
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Elaborately dressed and carefully made up, he will cast his pearls before swine and his body before bulls.
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Perhaps that’s why her segment burned brightest, that and the knock ‘em dead presence of Russian guest Irina Kolesnikova, casting her pearls before swine
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Stephen Garrett, of the independent production company Kudos, agrees that the problem is not one of young film-makers casting pearls before the swine of
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Lord Jesus warns against teaching those who are unprepared and cannot understand: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls
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Pearls before swine.
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Pearls before swine, indeed!
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Pearls before swine, and what pearls they are.
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Prosperity has been abused—pearls before swine.
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Pearls Before Swine 15 Jan. 1997 15.
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We thought of ourselves as pearls before swine.
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In Asset, he threw a pearl before swine.
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“I had a real feeling of pearls before swine.
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“I had a distinct feeling of pearls before swine…
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Rosewater; or Pearls Before Swine” 1965.
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“And pearls before swine,” returned Miss Parker, sweeping magisterially ahead.
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A rare case, this dinner party, of swine before pearls.
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What an effective maxim, ‘Don’t throw your pearls before swine,’ ” he said.
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Poets themselves best describe the pearls-before-swine risk of populist versifying.
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(Do we, in other words, cast Perle before swine?)
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Today his daily strip, “Pearls Before Swine,” appears in more than 500 newspapers.
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In a Pearls Before Swine strip, Rat, on steroids, decides he “will kick Mary Worth’s &#$*%!”
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Some Pearls Before Swine strips include appearances by the Family Circus characters or parodic Family Circus strips.
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You have found the comics and you open it up to one of your favorite comics, Pearls Before Swine.
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“Pearls before swine, I can tell yer.”
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On the other hand, Peugeot could spot pearl among swine.