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In Aerosmith's 1994 song "Eat the Rich" they say "But there's one good thing that happens when you toss your pearls to swine." The pig-based Pokémon Spoink and Grumpig may be inspired by the idea of "casting pearls before swine". Spoink and Grumpig appear to use the pearls of wisdom to enhance their psychic powers.
Pigs have long been featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear", a "pig in a poke", as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout". Whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent.
Pearls Before Swine (also known as Pearls) is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.The series began on December 31, 2001. [1] It chronicles the daily lives of an ensemble cast of suburban anthropomorphic animals: Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and a fraternity of crocodiles, [2] as well as a number of supporting characters, one of whom is Pastis himself.
Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...
Pearls Before Swine may refer to: "Pearls before swine", a phrase from Matthew 7:6 in the Bible; Literature. Pearls Before Swine, a comic strip by Stephan Pastis ...
Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn Good: March 2, 2003 ISBN 0-7407-3437-7: Strips from December 31, 2001, to October 6, 2002. Title is taken from a line Pig said in the January 12, 2002 strip and cover features him eating a BLT. This Little Piggy Stayed Home: March 1, 2004 ISBN 0-7407-3813-5: Strips from October 7, 2002, to July 13, 2003.
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Czech – až naprší a uschne meaning "When it rains and dries". [clarify] Another expression is až opadá listí z dubu ("When the leaves fall from the oak") Danish – når der er to torsdage i én uge ("when there are two Thursdays in one week")