| 单词 | to cast pearls before hogs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cast pearls before hogs P1. to cast pearls before hogs (and variants) : to offer or give a good or valuable thing to a person who is incapable of appreciating it. See to cast pearls before swine at pearl n.1 2c. [In allusion to Matthew 7:6.] ΚΠ c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. l. 10 Noli mittere, Margeri perles Among hogges þat han hawes at heore wille. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hiiv Cast nat your perles before hogges. 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xii, in Poems (new ed.) 56 But this is got by casting Pearl to Hoggs. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 63 Give not Pearls to the Hogs. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 118 I begun to think that Scripter was about right when they tell us not to fling pearls to the hogs. 1994 tr. D. Mitra in K. M. George Mod. Indian Lit. 50 To speak to me is like throwing pearls at a hog's feet. < as lemmas |
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