英语词汇“the pot calls the kettle black”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P8. the pot calls the kettle black and variants: used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone else could equally well apply to themselves; hence in allusive phrases as to call each other pot and kettle, etc.

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1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote lxvii. iv. 227 You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, ‘Avant, black-browes’.]

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 8 The pot calls the pan burnt-arse.

1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §386. 107 For a Covetous Man to inveigh against Prodigality..is for the Pot to call the Kettle black.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) ‘The Pot calls the kettle black A——’, when one accuses another of what he is as Deep in himself.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote IV. i. 201 ‘Hey! what the devil!’ (says the Tinker) the Pot calls the Kettle Black a-se! why I suppose thou art a Pedlar, as well as myself.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 217 Do you know what the pot called the kettle?

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiv. 292 I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 10/1 There has been a good deal of ‘pot and kettle’ in the stories from the British and Boer camps since the war began.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 280 The Nazi pot temporarily ceased calling the Russian kettle black.

1994 Analog Sci. Fiction & Fact Jan. 53/2 I chuckled at the pot calling the kettle black.

单词	the pot calls the kettle black
释义	> as lemmas the pot calls the kettle black P8. the pot calls the kettle black and variants: used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone else could equally well apply to themselves; hence in allusive phrases as to call each other pot and kettle, etc. ΚΠ 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote lxvii. iv. 227 You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, ‘Avant, black-browes’.] 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 8 The pot calls the pan burnt-arse. 1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §386. 107 For a Covetous Man to inveigh against Prodigality..is for the Pot to call the Kettle black. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) ‘The Pot calls the kettle black A——’, when one accuses another of what he is as Deep in himself. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote IV. i. 201 ‘Hey! what the devil!’ (says the Tinker) the Pot calls the Kettle Black a-se! why I suppose thou art a Pedlar, as well as myself. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 217 Do you know what the pot called the kettle? 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiv. 292 I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 10/1 There has been a good deal of ‘pot and kettle’ in the stories from the British and Boer camps since the war began. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 280 The Nazi pot temporarily ceased calling the Russian kettle black. 1994 Analog Sci. Fiction & Fact Jan. 53/2 I chuckled at the pot calling the kettle black. extracted from potn.¹ < as lemmas
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