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preach to the converted
Idioms and Phrases
Try to convince someone who is already convinced, as in Why tell me smoking is bad when I gave it up years ago? You're preaching to the converted . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
For a medical expert to warn of the perils of “doing your own research†on vaccines, for example, is to either preach to the converted or to demand trust where it has already been lost.
John Ashbery believed that readers of poetry are “already disposed†to be active politically and “to exhort them to do that in a poem is to preach to the converted.â€
Do you think your film will change minds, rather than just preach to the converted?
"But we set out to make a film for everybody, not to preach to the converted but document this amazing event."
But how do you not just preach to the converted, so to speak?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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