A two-part allegorical saying in which two similar people laugh at each other.

On the battlefield, the metaphors of people fleeing from pot calling the kettle black are similar, and there is not much difference. Stop laughing at me. We are pot calling the kettle black, and you are no richer than me.

2. pot calling the kettle black?

During the Warring States Period, Mencius talked with Liang and made an analogy. Two soldiers were defeated at the front. One escaped fifty steps, the other one escaped a hundred steps, and the one who escaped fifty steps laughed at the hundred steps and said that he was useless. In fact, both of them are running, just running far and near. Metaphor means that you have the same shortcomings or mistakes as others, only to a lesser extent, but you laugh at others.

Minnan proverb: it is unnecessary for a lamb to laugh at an ox: it means that although the sheep has a few sparse beards, it even laughs at an ox. Although a sheep has a few sparse beards, it even laughs at a cow without a beard. It means there is nothing to be ashamed of, and there is no beard. It means there's nothing to be ashamed of, just like being sarcastic and criticizing others.

Sichuan proverb: crow laughs at pig black: only look at others black, but you can't see yourself black; I don't know how ugly.