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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.
Black Kettle (Cheyenne: Mo'ohtavetoo'o) [1] (c. 1803 – November 27, 1868) was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne during the American Indian Wars.Born to the Northern Só'taeo'o / Só'taétaneo'o band of the Northern Cheyenne in the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota, [2] he later married into the Wotápio / Wutapai band (one mixed Cheyenne-Kiowa band with Lakota Sioux origin) of the ...
Speaking of The Snake and the Crab in Ancient Greece was the equivalent of the modern idiom, 'Pot calling the kettle black'. A fable attributed to Aesop was eventually created about the two creatures and later still yet another fable concerning a crab and its offspring was developed to make the same point.
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.
As Jaime Wright tells me, we should use astrology to understand ourselves better, not interpret black-or-white decisions. So yes, it’s 100% possible to be friends with incompatible zodiac signs.
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