0:05Hi everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to this short video format
0:12where we see each time a French expression. Today we will see the expression
0:18"the pot calling the kettle black".
0:21Before starting, think of course to activate the French subtitles.
0:25This will help you to understand better and to better remember all the new words
0:29or anything else we are going to see in this video. It's the pot calling the kettle black,
0:35or it is the hospital that mocks charity.
0:38If we say "the pot calling the kettle black that laughs at charity", the expression is really very,
0:43very familiar, whereas "it's the hospital that's laughing at
0:46charity", it can be used in more contexts. But what does this expression mean? When you use it,
0:53we want to say to someone who makes a reproach or points out a defect while this person also has
1:03this defect, also does something wrong.
1:06You will certainly understand better with some contextualization. For example, if I ate
1:13all the potato chips in my house and someone blames me,
1:18for example, my husband will blame me, he's going to say: "you ate all the chips".
1:22I'm going to tell him: "it's the pot calling the kettle black." You, you ate all my yogurt.
1:30So you see, somebody's blaming me, but me, I find that person, they're no better than me.
1:35She makes the same mistakes as I do,
1:37so I'm going to tell her: "it's the pot calling the kettle black". Here's another context.
1:44For example, at work, I can say: my boss reproaches me by saying that I take too long a
1:53lunch break, when I only take one hour. I can tell him it's really the pot calling the kettle black.
2:03He leaves every day at noon and comes back at 2pm. He takes twice as long.
2:08It's the pot calling the kettle black. So he blames me and he does the same thing, even worse.
2:16And that's it for the expression of the day. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you liked it,
2:21don't forget to put a thumb up and above all, subscribe to the channel.
2:25It helps me a lot and allows me to make more videos. See you soon on HelloFrench.