Practice what you preach.

Practice what you preach.
Practice what you preach.
Prov. Cliché You yourself should do the things you advise other people to do. •

Dad always told us we should only watch an hour of television every day, but we all knew he didn't practice what he preached.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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