Pot Calling The Kettle Black. The pot calling the kettle black. The idiom is glossed in the original sources as being used by a person who is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another and is thus an.
(idiomatic) a situation in which somebody comments on or accuses. Pot calling the kettle black. He doesn't see the black on himself. The idiom is glossed in the original sources as being used by a person who is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another and is thus an.
The pot only sees the blackness which is on the kettle;
That the united states was criticizing other countries' human rights records while under investigation itself was a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The earliest appearance of the idiom is in thomas shelton's 1620 translation of the spanish novel don quixote. Wikipedia lists an alternative interpretation of pot calling the kettle black that captures what i'm looking for: Будь тише воды, ниже травы!
