preach to



preach to someone

to give a moral discourse to someone. Please don't preach to me. I know that I did wrong. When you preach to us like that, we don't pay any attention to you.
See also: preach

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Dong-Chinese
Lauretta[lɔ:'retə]
JordonJAWR-dənEnglish
FemmeFEM-mə (Dutch)Dutch, Frisian
Aco-Macedonian, Serbian
Crescentia-German, Late Roman