to try to persuade or force someone who is already convinced; to preach to the choir
çekim: geçmiş rannte offene Türen ein · ortaç offene Türen eingerannt · şimdiki rennt offene Türen ein
köken: Literally, “to push in open doors”. Compare French enfoncer des portes ouvertes and the same in most other European languages.
to preach to the choir
çekim: geçmiş sfondàto una porta aperta · ortaç sfondàto una porta aperta
to state the obvious · to preach to the choir · to reinvent the wheel (to do what has already been done)
köken: Literally, “to kick down an open door”. Compare French enfoncer une porte ouverte.
aile: open deur
釈迦に対して仏教の教えを説こうとするように、本来は教えてもらうべき側が教えようとする様子。
to preach to the choir · to state the obvious · to reinvent the wheel
köken: Literally, “to prise [an] open door”. Compare French enfoncer des portes ouvertes.
Near-synonyms: odkrywać Amerykę, wynajdywać koło na nowo
to preach to the choir
köken: Literally, “to speak to the believers”
to preach to the choir, preach to the converted (to force an open door, to ask something that was already agreed to or self-explanatory)
köken: nyitott (“open”) + kapu (“door, gate”) + -k (plural suffix) + -at (accusative suffix) + dönget (“to bang”), literally “to bang on open doors”
to teach grandmother to suck eggs.
köken: From สอน (sɔ̌ɔn, “to teach; to instruct”) + หนังสือ (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ, “letter, character; literary work”) + สังฆราช (sǎng-ká-râat, “patriarch”).