Cast pearls before swine
To offer something valuable to someone who cannot appreciate it.
Đàn gảy tai trâu.
Đem của quý cho người không biết trân trọng.
Cast pearls before swine
Examples
Explaining the poem to that crowd was casting pearls before swine.
Giảng giải bài thơ cho đám đông ấy chẳng khác gì đàn gảy tai trâu.
She stopped sharing her work — it felt like casting pearls before swine.
Cô ấy thôi không chia sẻ tác phẩm của mình nữa — cứ như đàn gảy tai trâu vậy.
Topics
Related idioms
- The die is casteasily confused
- A leopard can't change its spotssame topic
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolfsame topic
- Let sleeping dogs liesame topic
- Not my cup of teasame topic
- One bad apple spoils the barrelsame topic