對牛彈琴
对牛弹琴
duìniútánqín
- lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
- fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
- to cast pearls before swine
- caviar to the general
- to preach to deaf ears
- to talk over sb's head
to talk about something that one's listener can not understand or turns a deaf ear to; to talk to a brick wall; to preach to deaf ears
Entry Composition
| 1 | 對 | duì |
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| 2 | 牛 | niú |
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| 3 | 彈琴 | tánqín | to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument |