Pebils before Sweeney

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pearls before swine: saying, casting pearls before swine means to give things of value to those who will not understand or appreciate them.

pebbles

Sweeney: a figure from Irish mythology, see Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes or Heaney's translation Sweeney Astray

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