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2 unusual facts about The pot calling the kettle black


The pot calling the kettle black

Although the full phrase goes "el comal le dijo a la olla, que tiznada estas" (‘the comal said to the pot, you are so full of soot’), for most people it is reminiscent of a popular children's song by Francisco Gabilondo Soler "Cri-Cri" in which the comal complains to the pot for laying on top of it (‘el comal, le dijo a la olla, oye olla, oye oye!, si tu te has creido que yo soy recargadera’).

In the Gospel of Matthew 7:3, Jesus is quoted as saying, during the discourse on judgmentalism in the Sermon on the Mount, "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"



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