Don't throw stones in glass houses
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Don't judge when you're flawed too, watch it.
Origin
From 14th-century England, tied to Chaucer's 'Troilus' (1380s); 'stones in glass' for risk, slang by 1470s in a proverb for care. A 1600s text uses it for a jab.
Variants
- Glass houses
Usage Examples
- Don't throw stones in glass houses-you're no saint.
- Glass houses; don't chuck stones!
- Throw stones? Check your glass house.
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