CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE and HANG OUT YOUR (ONE’S) SHINGLE:

FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:

CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE and HANG OUT YOUR (ONE’S) SHINGLE:

 

 

CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE:

 

Meaning:

 

It means, one is wasting something by offering it to someone thinking it is helpful or valuable to that person who actually doesn't even understand or appreciated it – to present something of great interest or value to someone incapable of realizing or appreciating it - to waste something good and valuable on someone who doesn’t care about it 

 

(தமிழில் -- similar expression and not true translation  - 'கழுதை அறியுமா கற்பூர வாசனை?')

 

Example sentences:

 

You don’t value what should be valued; I only wasted my time by CASTING PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.

 

I have wonderful costumes with feathers and top hats, but it’s like CASTING PEARLS BEFORE SWINE; they don’t care what you wear.

 

Most of the time, playing classical music for school children is generally like CASTING PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.

 

The old professor felt that lecturing on non-violence to unruly elements would be to CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. For, they don’t and wouldn’t care at all.

 

She explained the beauty of music to him, but it was nothing but CASTING PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, as he can neither understand nor appreciate it.  Nor he is attracted towards music.

 

I won’t waste good advice on John any more because he never listens to it. Surely, I won’t CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.

 

HANG OUT YOUR (ONE’S) SHINGLE:

 

 

Meaning:

 

Begin to practice a profession - to open a private office especially a doctor’s clinic or lawyer’s office - open an office to carry on profession, or practice on what one learnt

 

 

Example sentences:

 

Soon after she graduated from the law college and registration with the Bar Council, she HUNG OUT HER SHINGLE as a practicing lawyer.

 

He HUNG OUT HIS SHINGLE by setting up his ‘Auditor Office’ under the name ‘BALAJI ASSOCIATES’ after finishing the article-ship for becoming a Chartered Accountant.

 

The industry is not regulated, so anybody can HANG OUT A SHINGLE.

 

She is good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should HANG OUT HER SHINGLE and try making good income out of it.

 

After working as a junior in that Senior Counsel’s office for 5 years, Mohan quit it and HUNG OUT HIS OWN SHINGLE as an independent practicing lawyer.

 

That auto mechanic after gaining sufficient experience in that auto repair shop left the job to HANG OUT HIS OWN SHINGLE.

 

 

Proverb:

 

வண்ணானுக்கு வண்ணாத்திமேல் ஆசை, வண்ணாத்திக்குக் கழுதை மேல் ஆசை.

The washer-man longs for the washer-woman, and the washer-woman's desire is fixed on her donkey.

(R.SAMPATH)

1/2/2022