wine Idiom, Proverb

cast pearls before swine

waste something on someone who won

wine and dine

Idiom(s): wine and dine sb

Theme: EATING - ENTERTAINMENT

to treat someone to an expensive meal of the type that includes fine wines; to entertain someone lavishly. (Fixed order.)
• The lobbyists wined and dined the senators one by one in order to influence them.
• We were wined and dined every night and given the best hotel accommodations in town.

cast one's pearls before swine

Idiom(s): cast (one's) pearls before swine

Theme: WASTE

to waste something good on someone who doesn't care about it. (From a biblical quotation.)
• To sing for them is to cast pearls before swine.
• To serve them French cuisine is like casting one's pearls before swine.

The truth is in the wine.

People speak more freely under the influence of alcohol.

Old friends and old wine are best

This idiom means that the things and people that we know well are better than the unfamiliar.

Turn water into wine

If someone turns water into wine, they transform something bad into something excellent.

house wine

the restaurant's own unlabelled wine: "Would you like the house red or the house white?"

cast pearls before swine|cast|cast one's pearls be

n. phr., literary To waste good acts or valuable things on someone who won't understand or be thankful for them, just as pigs won't appreciate pearls.

Often used in negative sentences. I won't waste good advice on John any more because he never listens to it. I won't cast pearls before swine.

swine

swine
see cast pearls before swine.