piscem natare doces Phrase
Meaning:
[you] teach a fish to swim
Comment
Latin proverb, attributed by Erasmus in his Adagia to Greek origin (Diogenianus, Ἰχθὺν νηχέσθαι διδάσκεις); corollary Chinese idiom (班門弄斧)
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