🐷 Pig
"Cast pearls before swine"
Meaning
To offer something valuable to people who do not appreciate it.
About the pig
Pigs are associated with mess and excess in folklore, which is where idioms about greed and untidiness come from.
Example sentence
Explaining poetry to a class that only wanted cartoons felt like casting pearls before swine.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To offer something valuable to people who do not appreciate it.
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"Pig-headed"
Very stubborn and unwilling to change your mind.
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"Guinea pig"
A person used to test something new.
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"When pigs fly"
Used to say something will never happen.
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"Buy a pig in a poke"
To buy something without checking it first.
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"Go whole hog"
To do something completely, not halfway.
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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"
You cannot make something excellent from very poor material.