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• (the) pot calling the kettle black — the pot calling the kettle black informal phrase used for saying that someone is criticizing another person for a fault that they also have Thesaurus: ways of making or receiving criticism or blamehyponym to criticize, accuse or blamesynonym… …   Useful english dictionary

• the pot calling the kettle black — ► the pot calling the kettle black used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone could equally well apply to themselves. Main Entry: ↑kettle …   English terms dictionary

• the pot calling the kettle black — Castigation of another s faults by someone with the same shortcomings • • • Main Entry: ↑pot * * * I see pot I II used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone else could equally well apply to themselves …   Useful english dictionary

• (the) pot calling the kettle black — a situation in which one person criticizes another for a fault they have themselves. Ernie accused me of being selfish. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! …   New idioms dictionary

• put the kettle on — phrase to boil water, especially for making tea Thesaurus: preparing tea and coffee drinkshyponym general words for drinkssynonym Main entry: kettle …   Useful english dictionary

• Pot calling the kettle black — The phrase Pot calling the kettle black is an idiom, used to accuse another speaker of hypocrisy, in that the speaker disparages the subject for a fault or negative behavior that could equally be applied to him or her, though there is an… …   Wikipedia

• the pot calling the kettle black — used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone could equally well apply to themselves. → pot …   English new terms dictionary

• Polly Put the Kettle On — is a nursery rhyme. Molly Put the Kettle On or Jenny s Baubie was published by Joseph Dale c 1809 10. It was also printed, with Polly instead of Molly in Dublin about the same time. The melody is vaguely similar to Oh du lieber Augustin , which… …   Wikipedia

• Sympathy for the Kettle, LLC — Sympathy for the Kettle was started in December 2003 in the East Village in New York City. The space was initially a dark and bankrupt Korean tea room. The proprietress or host, Jodi Holiday purchased the failing business, learned the art of tea… …   Wikipedia

• pot call the kettle black — {informal} The person who is criticizing someone else is as guilty as the person he accuses; the charge is as true of the person who makes it as of the one he makes it against. * /When the commissioner accused the road builder of bribery, the… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pot call the kettle black — {informal} The person who is criticizing someone else is as guilty as the person he accuses; the charge is as true of the person who makes it as of the one he makes it against. * /When the commissioner accused the road builder of bribery, the… …   Dictionary of American idioms