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Where you live if you've decided your sins are the only ones that don't count.
means A position of obvious vulnerability or hypocrisy that should make you careful about criticizing others, since you have the same faults yourself.
from From the old proverb 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones,' known since at least the 1600s — a glass house has transparent, fragile walls, so anyone inside hurling rocks at a neighbor is really just setting up their own place to shatter. The phrase survives almost entirely in that cautionary form; 'glass house' alone now just summons the whole warning.
- origin
- from let him who is without sin cast first stone
- modern use
- warns hypocrites before they throw first insult
- irony level
- critics of others often own the biggest ones
- structural flaw
- transparent walls, zero privacy, terrible insulation