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practice what you preach	To practice what you preach means to do as you say. To live by example.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
preach to deaf ears	To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
preach to the choir	Speaking as if to convince a person or group of something which that person or group already believes.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cognitive dissonance	The state of behaving in a way that runs contrary to one's core values, worldview, ideals, and/or moral compass. One who does not practice as they preach could be said to have cognitive dissonance	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down	An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.	Rate it: (4.00 / 5 votes)
gros jean qui en remontre à son curé	Hodge tries to teach the Parson how to preach; He teaches his grandmother to suck eggs.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)