釈迦に説法

しゃかにせっぽう

teaching your grandmother to suck eggs

Meanings

  1. expression, idiom teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha

Its kanji

In sentences

釈迦しゃかに説法せっぽう。 Don't teach fish to swim. #148873

それは釈迦しゃかに説法せっぽうというもの。 That's like carrying coals to Newcastle. #205091