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preach to the choir

[ preech tuh thuh kwahyuhr ]

idiom

  1. to express an observation or viewpoint to those who already share the same observation or viewpoint:

    If you’re saying that juggling a career and parenthood is tough, you’re preaching to the choir—I’m a single working mom with two preschoolers.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of preach to the choir1

First recorded in 1965–70
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“There’s no point of having some kind of a revolutionary purism that you should only preach to the choir. That would be completely pointless,” Malm said.

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In Shenker-Osorio's vision of persuasion, you did indeed preach to the choir, so the choir would in turn conquer the hearts of the much broader audience in the seats — the moderates.

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And so we’re really looking at this 20- to 45-year-old range of people who, yes, there are the Black people… You preach to the choir, so that you can get that refrain.

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How can your film, which exposes these facts, work to change minds, rather than just preach to the choir?

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They all preach to the choir while the people who need to be reached remain outside the church of the Enlightenment.

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