Pearls Before Swine
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"Neither cast ye your pearls before swine" is an advice Jesus gives us according to Matthew 7:06.
It has become a general expression, indicating that something sophisticated is lost on an uncultured audience. This phrase has been used and abused often. Some examples include:
- Pearls Before Swine refers to a comic strip
- Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band.
- Pearls Before Swine is an alternate title for Kurt Vonnegut's novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
- Pearls Before Swine is a puzzle/logic game.
- Dorothy Parker once famously turned this phrase on its head – see Wikiquote.