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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

  1. We shouldn't complain about others if we are as bad as they are.


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Idioms and Phrases

One who is open to criticism should not criticize others, as in It's stupid of Mike to mention his opponent's accepting donations from lobbyists—people who live in glass houses! This proverb is so well known that it is often shortened. [Late 1300s] Also see pot calling the kettle black .
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Example Sentences

“This seems like a reminder that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s global energy center, said of the Chinese report.

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Mr. Clapper refused to call that kind of espionage a “cyberattack” in a Senate hearing on Thursday, saying that “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

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“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” he said.

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Twitter immediately struck back with its version of “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” because Huckabee’s own family has a dog incident of its own.

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Malloy told his rival that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and in what sounded more like a public airing of his campaign’s opposition research, Malloy unleashed a string of attacks on Foley’s ethics.

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