sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
lecture; sermon; preaching; moralizing; moralising
teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; (lit.) lecturing to the Buddha
sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen
persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion
single mistake which ruins all one's hard work; one blunder rendering a long period of effort useless; (lit.) one fart in a hundred days of sermons
tub-thumping preacher; preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon; pulpiteer (usually with contemptuous implication)
preaching burglar; burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes