"Pot Calling the Kettle Black"
December 7, 2009
"Pot calling the kettle black"
Similar idioms in other languages,
according to Wikipedia:
"The camel cannot see the crookedness of its own neck." (Arabic)
"One donkey chides the other for being a long-ear." (German)
"The donkey called the rooster a fathead." (Greek)
"Dog ridicules the cat for being hairy." (Vietnamese)
"The garlic laughs at the onion for its smell." (Hebrew)
"The dung-stained dog reproaches the chaff-stained dog." (Korean)
"The owl tells the sparrow that it has a big head." (Hungarian)
"An armadillo tellig a turtle it is too hard-shelled." (Spanish - Venezuela)
"The shard laughs at the broken pot." (Romanian)
"To see a little straw in other's eye, and not notice a log in one's own." (Russian)
"For the sleep in one's eyes to laugh at the snot in one's nose." (Japanese)
"A man without pants laughed at a man with holey pants." (Uzbek)
citation needed
Part of the Foreign Idioms series.
