Swine : nm (word from latin porcellus : pork). Pork, pig.
Throw pearls at the pigs. Means, in the New Testament expression, to provide something of value to someone who will not know how to benefit from it or who is unable to appreciate it. We say more commonly: give jam to pigs
Saint Anthony's swine applies "to those parasites who eat everywhere outside their homes, and who are accustomed, according to the proverb, to behave like the swine of Saint Anthony, to stuff themselves everywhere".
To be as dirty as a pig.
Man who devotes himself to the pleasures of the senses (epicurean, pleasure-seeker).
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961) “But what have you done with your personal fudge? of your sneaky pig selfishness? of your spiritual laziness? of your ragged pettiness? Of your eternally denigrating rage? Of your vinassière laziness? " in Trivia for a massacre - 1938.