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"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 , [ 1 ] or hypocrisy . [ 2 ]
The kettle may or may not be black, but attacking it for its blackness will only draw attention to your own blackness, which in turn undermines your position. It happens quite often on Wikipedia that an editor makes a post to remind others of civility but writes it in an uncivil tone.
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I agree. The kettle is clearly a shiny silver. Anyone got a black kettle? Grand master ka 23:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC) I found a decent photo of a cast iron kettle on Flickr and replaced the obviously non-black kettle. The pot though is still clearly stainless steel. There are plenty of images of black pots, but no good free ones that I could find.
Since the movement of both creatures is far from direct, this is as much as to say that the pot should not call the kettle black. A later fable, attributed to Aesop and numbered 196 in the Perry Index, [2] relates that the two were once friends. When the snake ignored the crab's advice to lead an honest life, it was killed by the crab.
Pot Kettle Black may refer to: The phrase The pot calling the kettle black; A song on the Wilco album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot This page was last edited on 29 ...
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The look: The chips are a shocking bright red color that borders on purple, thanks to the red 40 food dye. Otherwise, the size and shape of these chips are similar to the other kettle-cooked ...