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Practice what you preach

Do yourself what you advise others to do.

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Idioms and Phrases with 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.

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