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The pot calling the kettle black
The phrase "The pot calling the kettle black" is an idiom used to claim that a person is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another.
==Interpretations and origins==
As generally understood, the person accusing (the "pot") is understood to share some quality with the target of their accusation (the "kettle"). The pot is mocking the kettle for a little soot when the pot itself is thoroughly covered with it.
An alternative interpretation, recognized by some,〔Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, by William Morris, Mary Morris〕〔Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870, revised by Adrian Room (Millennium Edition)〕 but not all,〔(Pot ) in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, by E. Cobham Brewer, 1898 edition〕 sources is that the pot is sooty (being placed on a fire), while the kettle is clean and shiny (being placed on coals only), and hence when the pot accuses the kettle of being black, it is the pot’s own sooty reflection that it sees: the pot accuses the kettle of a fault that only the pot has, rather than one that they ''share''. The point is illustrated by a poem that appeared anonymously in an early issue of ''St. Nicholas Magazine'':
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