The pot calling the kettle black
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title:
The pot calling the kettle black
text:
"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy. Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour is the tu quoque logic
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description:
Proverbial idiom referring to an example of hypocrisy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black
date created:
2006-08-17T10:41:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T09:27:51Z
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