明珠暗投 míngzhū'àntóu to cast pearls before swine Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 明珠暗投 míngzhū'àntóu to cast pearls before swine metaphor for a person of talent whose abilities are not recognized or a valuable thing that is not appreciated to fall into bad company metaphor for a good person who has gone astray or joined an unworthy group Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
明珠暗投 míngzhū'àntóu to cast pearls before swine metaphor for a person of talent whose abilities are not recognized or a valuable thing that is not appreciated to fall into bad company metaphor for a good person who has gone astray or joined an unworthy group Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
