Multiple choice

Directions: Select the meaning of each underlined phrase/idiom.

To explain the merits of female education to my cousin from the village is to cast pearls before a swine.

  1. to spend recklessly

  2. to waste a lot of money on the upkeep of education

  3. to edify the benefits of education

  4. to offer a person a thing which he cannot appreciate
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D Correct answer
Explanation

To cast pearls before a swine’ means to offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate.

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