PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Definition & Meaning

Practice what you preach

Do yourself what you advise others to do.

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Idioms and Phrases

Behave as you would have others behave, as in You keep telling us to clean up, but I wish you'd practice what you preach. This idiom expresses an ancient idea but appeared in this precise form only in 1678. Also see do as I say.

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"Also, try to practice what you preach."

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“In a perfect world, you’d practice what you preach with your own funds,” Maviglio said.

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As every politician, self-identified spiritual leader or seemingly kind talk show host knows, nothing brings controversy faster than the suggestion that you do not practice what you preach.

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It’s a bit of practice what you preach for Monken, who has pledged to give Jackson more control in the huddle and at the line of scrimmage than he had with predecessor Greg Roman.

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Here is an instance when it is wrong to practice what you preach.

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