I was thinking about the phrase ‘The pot calling the kettle black’. It comes from a time where cooking was done over open fires and cookware would become visibly ashy. (Fun fact: It first appears and was perhaps coined by Cervantes in Don Quixote!)
What are some other idioms that have lost their literal connection to time? What would be a good modern replacement?
The crypto bro trolling the AI bro. It would be a nice modern substitute lol, IF I understand what the meaning is, eng is not my native language, but as I understood it’s: Someone bad calling out someone other bad
It’s a touch stilted but it gets the idea across! May I ask your first language? Any old idioms there that no longer make literal sense in the modern world?
It’s both too contentious and too referential to work imo, not everyone knows what a “x bro” is, or even what trolling is. Would work great on lemmy though.
Also yeah you understood the expression, although it’s more about someone calling someone else out on something they also do.