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Practice what you preach

  1. 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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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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