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  Practice what you preach

  Do yourself what you advise others to do.
• practice what you preach
  practice what you preach

  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.

Practice what you preach

Cultural  

1. Do yourself what you advise others to do.

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practice what you preach Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

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.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

You talk that good stuff on TV, but you don’t practice what you preach.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

"Provided you practice what you preach, we shall."

From Paul Patoff by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)