Gulo Blue
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I have always thought it means ?at the end of the day we are the same.?
Or in this situation, ?yes I?m strange myself, but look who?s talking??
That is the effective meaning. That's how everybody uses the phrase, so that's what it means now.
okay...I googled it and I'm wrong about the original use. Cervantes first used a similar phrase the way we do today. However, the alternate interpretation has been around for over 100 years.
"Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack."
"Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean ? without blemish or blot ?
That your blackness is mirrored in me."