cast pearls before swine

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cast pearls before swine (literary)

to offer something valuable to someone who does not understand that it is valuable. Giving him advice is just casting pearls before swine. He doesn't listen.

See also: before, cast, pearl

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Messina, Italy--On Sunday, March 26, an 80-year-old Sicilian parish priest humiliated Pieruccio, an 11-year-old boy suffering from Down's Syndrome in front of all his catechism companions, by telling him that he would not hear his confession before First Communion, because "one cannot cast pearls before swine. Bishop asks forgiveness of Down's Syndrome child (Italy) by Catholic Insight More results

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Messina, Italy--On Sunday, March 26, an 80-year-old Sicilian parish priest humiliated Pieruccio, an 11-year-old boy suffering from Down's Syndrome in front of all his catechism companions, by telling him that he would not hear his confession before First Communion, because "one cannot cast pearls before swine.

Bishop asks forgiveness of Down's Syndrome child (Italy) by Catholic Insight

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