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throw a stone in a glashouse

A Swedish term you telling someone to not blame another person for their actions when they do the same thing themselves.
"-Why didn't he use the blinker when he changed lane?
-Hey, don't throw a stone in a glashouse now."

Don't throw rocks when you live in a stone house 

It means you're being a douche who brags.
Yes Steve, but don't throw rocks when you live in a stone house.

Throwing a stone in the ocean 

The hypnotic effect of a fat women in the throughs of passion.
I was mill tossing Paula Deen, man its like throwing a stone in the ocean

throw stones into a still pond 

to disturb the peace.
It does not behove anyone to throw stones into a still pond.

Throwing sticks and stones at a skunk 

Those damn SPRI kids were out there throwing sticks and stones at a skunk!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026