What does pot meet kettle mean?

[Anonymous]

I get what the phrase means, but why pot? Kettle? Lol I've never understood that

[Distant]

The phrase is more along the lines of "Well, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black" an idiom referring to the fact that both pots and kettles were black in the days of old. Therefore, it's like saying "Well, isn't that the clown calling the other clown ridiculous?" or, more simply, "You're a hypocrite" or "You're the same".

[Anonymous]

It's a shortened version of "the pot calling the kettle black", which basically means that Person A is accusing Person B of doing something that A has done or having a characteristic that A has.

[kittykatg]

Because they are both kitchen tools used to boil things. They also used to always be black too. So the idea of the pot calling the kettle black or pot meet kettle because it's too people who are very similar and shouldn't be talking smack on each other because they do the same thing.

[Asker]

I see, thanks!

[Sex_Panther]

Close. Actually it's because the bottoms of both get scorched. They become flawed from being over a fire no matter what they are made of and turn black with soot.

[kittykatg]

Either way it's to not talk poorly about someone when you pull the same shit they do.

[kittykatg]

Thanks for most helpful

[yaddayaddayadda02]

Not pot as in marijuana, but a cooking pot.

[Asker]

I know but I still don't understand

[yaddayaddayadda02]

From the idiom, "look at the pot calling the kettle black". A black (color) pot shouldn't be calling out a kettle for being the color black. So If I'm cheating on my partner, I shouldn't be calling out someone else for cheating..

It's been shortened to "pot, meet kettle"

[rthomas43]

It means "you're being a hypocrite".

[Metal189]

being hypocritical. pot calling the kettle black

[Panzer103]

A tea pot and kettle are the same thing.