[Sca-cooks] Pearls before Swine
Pixel, Goddess and Queen
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com
Wed Jul 3 11:42:58 PDT 2002
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Christine Seelye-King wrote:
> I am looking for the etymology of the phrase "casting pearls before swine".
> I believe it to be of biblical origin, but I am really looking for the
> context of the phrase as well as meaning (today we think of it as meaning
> wasting time and resources on someone or something that won't use or
> appreciate it).
> Any ideas, oh great fonts of knowledge out there?
> Christianna
Nifty website here:
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/280300.html
Yes, it's Biblical (Matthew 7:6), and it means just about what we use it
to mean now.
Margaret (who is trying very hard to be bored today, but the customers
have other ideas)
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