
对牛弹琴trad.對牛彈琴
duìniútánqín
- 1.lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
- 2.fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
- 3.to cast pearls before swine
- 4.caviar to the general
- 5.to preach to deaf ears
- 6.to talk over sb's head
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