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"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones", meaning?

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Date de publication: 2014/04/03
Rasha Ali Mahmoud
par Rasha Ali Mahmoud , personal assitant , ABZnvest

This statement means that we all make mistakes do not take judgments on people .. no this world is infallible because the reprint rights he does not see its flaws, but is fluent in seeing the mistakes of others

Gul Zaman
par Gul Zaman , Network Administration , vision technologies

Do not critisize others if you have similar weaknesses in yourself

Hayam Abdallah
par Hayam Abdallah , English Teacher , Gaber Al-Ansary Language School

Don't judge others as if you are right all the time because everyone has his own weakness and mistakes and if you criticize them they will do the same .

Dr Yasmeen Majeed
par Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD

I think this means that first we should correct our own follies and overcome our shortcomings  and then only we should pinpoint others.

Ahmed Gendy
par Ahmed Gendy , English Senior Inspector , Ministry of Education (MoE)

 it means :Don't laugh at  my mistakes as long as you have your own mistakes that people make fun of.

Hojat Kermani Nejad
par Hojat Kermani Nejad , English Interpreter /Purchase and Quality control , Water and Waste Company

dont hurl indecency at others...just treat the way you mean to be treated

Faridullah Shah Farid
par Faridullah Shah Farid , Stenographer/PA/Admin Officer , Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA)

It means we should avoid criticising others for their flaws. If we do, they will do the same with us.

Nicholas Poshayi
par Nicholas Poshayi , Teacher/Librarian/Academic Teacher , Brooke Bond School

lt is good to avoid unnecessary criticism because it will expose our own weaknesses or it prompts those we criticize to want to know more about us.Who is perfect among us in any case?We all fall short in one way or the other so the best way is to avoid acute angles.

This proverb has a metaphorical message that we shouldn't criticise others' flaws and ill-fatedness when we have our own.

anayat bukhari
par anayat bukhari , Researcher, English Content Writer, Publisher , Noor Foundation

This idiom is used to stop someone from unnecessay criticism by reminding him his vulnerability to same unpleasant criticism.

Example:

"Avoid throwing stones while sitting in a glass house", PM advised the opposition.

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